#  @TrungTPhan Trung Phan Rishi, a former Stanford MBA student, is now in a senior role at Microsoft, which is notable because some big tech PMs had previously ignored him. This development may come as a surprise to those who underestimated him, as hinted in a tweet about a potential [----] class reunion. Rishi's career progression has garnered attention on social media. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::945817135816654848/interactions)  - [--] Week [----------] +95% - [--] Month [----------] +43% - [--] Months [-----------] +28% - [--] Year [-----------] -56% ### Mentions: [---] [#](/creator/twitter::945817135816654848/posts_active)  - [--] Week [---] +11% - [--] Month [---] +50% - [--] Months [-----] +22% - [--] Year [-----] -19% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::945817135816654848/followers)  - [--] Week [-------] +0.02% - [--] Month [-------] +0.27% - [--] Months [-------] -0.42% - [--] Year [-------] +2% ### CreatorRank: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::945817135816654848/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 20.19% [finance](/list/finance) #871 [stocks](/list/stocks) 15.38% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) #3150 [celebrities](/list/celebrities) #4727 [countries](/list/countries) #4461 [social networks](/list/social-networks) 3.85% [luxury brands](/list/luxury-brands) 2.4% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) 2.4% [financial services](/list/financial-services) #1661 **Social topic influence** [ai](/topic/ai) #1254, [the most](/topic/the-most) #3051, [super bowl](/topic/super-bowl) #233, [history](/topic/history) #337, [apple](/topic/apple) 4.33%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 4.33%, [milan](/topic/milan) #116, [business](/topic/business) 2.88%, [anthropic](/topic/anthropic) #3569, [seedance](/topic/seedance) #69 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@themasmedia](/creator/undefined) [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@elonmusk](/creator/undefined) [@futurum_gaming](/creator/undefined) [@infoxicador](/creator/undefined) [@dagmarunger](/creator/undefined) [@xuantrungpl](/creator/undefined) [@1iusheng](/creator/undefined) [@adamsinger](/creator/undefined) [@vincenzolandino](/creator/undefined) [@davidperell](/creator/undefined) [@bfaviero](/creator/undefined) [@imadeiyamu](/creator/undefined) [@seozilla_ai](/creator/undefined) [@giannisellinas](/creator/undefined) [@chancellorpen](/creator/undefined) [@uspredict](/creator/undefined) [@graemecrawley_](/creator/undefined) [@loverai79976](/creator/undefined) [@wokoma_festus](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST)](/topic/costco) [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Goldman Sachs (GS)](/topic/goldman-sachs) [Kroger Co (KR)](/topic/kroger) [DoorDash Inc. (DASH)](/topic/doordash) [Walmart, Inc. (WMT)](/topic/$wmt) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours ""Tell your Lord that iPhone [--] has a thermally-conductive aluminum unibody dual-side Ceramic Shield ProRes Raw A19 chip and 48MP fusion camera equal to [--] lenses. "The Anjin says iPhone [--] is exactly like the iPhone [--] with slightly better camera and comes in cosmic orange" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1965554137791430955) 2025-09-09T23:13Z 722.9K followers, 676.2K engagements "Just realized Dick Cheney isnt even in the files. He just did all that for the love of the game Just realized Dick Cheney isnt even in the files. He just did all that for the love of the game" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2018030984441344130) 2026-02-01T18:37Z 722.9K followers, 1.3M engagements "the Winter Olympics once had a Ski Ballet category and the skill level is astounding" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019439679121289317) 2026-02-05T15:55Z 722.9K followers, 68.1K engagements "Over the past [--] years Walmart (+169% to $1T) has hugely outperformed Amazon (+26% to $2.3T). Walmart executed impressive tech pivot: E-commerce sales hit $120B in 2025; while still short of Amazon's $500B WMT's online business is growing over 20% a year (vs. 10% a year for AMZN) Online ads were $5B+ in [----] growing 33% a year (while less than 1% of Walmart's total $712B sales high-margins on ads make it 10% of Walmart's operating profit) Turned its supercenters (stocks 100m SKUs) into online distribution hubs (10s of millions of SKUs now) Walmarts digital success is bolted onto the largest" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019840017347277133) 2026-02-06T18:26Z 722.9K followers, 33.2K engagements "Last year Claude worked with Norways $2T sovereign wealth to create a Financial Analysis tool plugged into real-time data (Factset Morningstar Pitchbook Palantir S&P). Funds CEO said it led to 20% (or [-----] work hours) productivity gains by automating monitoring of newsflow for [----] companies to enabling more efficient voting. Goldman Sachs has spent the past six months working with embedded Anthropic engineers to co-develop autonomous agents in at least two specific areas: accounting for trades and transactions and client vetting and onboarding. https://t.co/73Q3nVws0R Goldman Sachs has" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019845104597627003) 2026-02-06T18:46Z 722.9K followers, 231.3K engagements "In [----] Fox outbid CBS and paid $1.6B for NFC rights. Fox Sports Head David Hill had [--] months to make a broadcast from scratch. The theme song inspiration was great: he was at Six Flags and heard an orchestral version of Batman. So Batmans got a football team became the brief he gave his team for a theme song. Thats how we got this banger. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020190782133870771 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020190782133870771" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020190782133870771) 2026-02-07T17:39Z 722.9K followers, 272.5K engagements "To put Frances [--] million AI investment in perspective its estimated that the cost across the EU to re-make bottling production lines for tethered bottle caps was as much as [---] billion" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020253827216367686) 2026-02-07T21:50Z 722.9K followers, 192.4K engagements "You basiclaly have to be an Olympic-caliber skiier just to prepare the Olympics Alpine Sky track with a backpack paint-sprayer (blue lines extra dark for contrast because visibility hard AF when flying over 130km/hr with sun glare on white snow)" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020593009860243570) 2026-02-08T20:18Z 722.9K followers, 1.8M engagements "Microsoft [---] has [---] million paid seats but only 3% (15 million) pay for Copilot AI. Hence this $10m Super Bowl ad for Copilot in Microsoft Excel. Microsoft [---] (Word Excel Powerpoint Outlook) has over [---] million paid seats. Only 3% of the seats (15 million) have added the AI Copilot feature. https://t.co/dqSqtNsRch Microsoft [---] (Word Excel Powerpoint Outlook) has over [---] million paid seats. Only 3% of the seats (15 million) have added the AI Copilot feature. https://t.co/dqSqtNsRch" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020664329818001686) 2026-02-09T01:01Z 722.9K followers, 222.3K engagements "Lee Kuan Yew talks about talent spotting candidates: he was so inspired by how the Apollo [--] astronauts salvaged the [----] lunar mission that he adopted NASAs psychological assessment tests for the Singaporean government" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021269330709614929) 2026-02-10T17:05Z 722.9K followers, 226.8K engagements "Today is the 30th anniversary of IBM's Deep Blue beating Kasparov for the first time in a chess match which is a good reminder that IBM has somehow outperformed Meta Apple Microsoft and Amazon over the past [--] years" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021303514756997414) 2026-02-10T19:21Z 722.9K followers, 15.6K engagements "Part of Singapores new space agency is to also explore AI in orbit @TrungTPhan Love this Somewhat related: Little Singapore recently announced it will be setting up the National Space Agency of Singapore (NSAS) https://t.co/0uN2VYP7qi @TrungTPhan Love this Somewhat related: Little Singapore recently announced it will be setting up the National Space Agency of Singapore (NSAS) https://t.co/0uN2VYP7qi" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021610010585821682) 2026-02-11T15:39Z 722.9K followers, [----] engagements "Fantastic Olympics journey: 54-year old Rich Ruohonen is a law firm partner been top American curler for decades but never made Olympics barely missed qualifying in [----] and thought dream was over a team member for [----] Olympics got sick and they tapped Rich to be an alternative before leaving for Milan he set the automatic email reply for his personal injury practice: I am out of the office. Playing in the Olympics. Rich is more than twice as old as the rest of teammates (mid-20s same age as Richs kids) and coaches he's practicing cooking and even paying day-to-day expenses for the team his" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021748974001217971) 2026-02-12T00:51Z 722.9K followers, 974.3K engagements "ASML is the most important company you've never heard of. The $300B+ Dutch firm makes the machines that make semiconductors. Each one costs $150m and access to them are a huge geopolitical flashpoint. Here's a breakdown 🧵" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1429464889307762688) 2021-08-22T15:26Z 722.8K followers, 24.8K engagements "This is what AI thinks Napoleon would look like in the year 2023" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1678538736978771968) 2023-07-10T22:56Z 722.9K followers, 5.7M engagements "Aperol Spritz is the biggest scam drink ever. Imagine watered-down Fanta a wine cooler and some club sodafor $15 a glass. Go to any major European city (Prague Paris Barcelona Munich) and some tourist idiot is drinking Aperol Spritz believing its a local invention. Bro its Italian. Look I get: orange is an arresting color. Think Tang Sunny D or as mentioned Fanta. You get the drink in a wine glass with a slice of orange and a fancy draw. It looks like $15 but tastes $0.50. Also the alcohol content is a joke. The Aperol liqueur is 11% and prosecco is 12% but it always gets way too watered" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1812816845692346513) 2024-07-15T11:49Z 722.9K followers, 785.9K engagements "Joe Rogans range is next level: Adam Sandler Dennis Quaid and Peter Thiel in one week. And the topic of UFOs came up in every chat" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1824845655866786281) 2024-08-17T16:28Z 722.8K followers, 85.8K engagements "Jony Ives design firm LoveFrom is charging up to $200m a year to design new products. Clients include Airbnb (new review system) Ferrari (touchscreen) Christies (auction stand) and OpenAI (AI hardware). The most visible product yet is a reinvented button for a Moncler jacket. According to Fast Company Ive set out to solve a tricky clothing design problem (How do you connect a hard object to a flexible one). The LoveFrom team created a coin size magnetic button that you press to connect different layers of the Moncler jacket with no threads required (the magnetic button acts similar to the" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1837975642929082615) 2024-09-22T22:01Z 722.9K followers, 1.4M engagements "reminder that no asian guy and stripper story will ever top Enron Lou Pais asian guy and stripper story" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1931504865169330406) 2025-06-08T00:13Z 722.8K followers, 957.2K engagements "American Eagle popping +22% after announcing a partnership with Sydney Sweeney is the efficient market at work https://x.com/sweeneydailyx/status/1948032121429500221/video/1 https://x.com/sweeneydailyx/status/1948032121429500221/video/1" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1948273156722171907) 2025-07-24T06:44Z 722.9K followers, 3.6M engagements "wow Justin Tucks Linkedin profile is legit Wait Justin Tuck now works at Goldman https://t.co/1BYG6lnWr4 Wait Justin Tuck now works at Goldman https://t.co/1BYG6lnWr4" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1976409523549241852) 2025-10-09T22:08Z 722.9K followers, 2.1M engagements "Anyway my fave story of the AI boom is prob Micron Tech (+176% YTD) mostly because the main money behind its founding in the late 70s/early 80s was an Idaho potato mogul. I wrote on how he made billions selling potato chips then billions on semichips: https://www.readtrung.com/p/jr-simplot-became-a-billionaire-sellingr=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false https://www.readtrung.com/p/jr-simplot-became-a-billionaire-sellingr=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1989128599518212506) 2025-11-14T00:29Z 722.8K followers, 23.5K engagements "Michael Burry in the past [--] hours Nvidia has given its +5% after-hours gain and is down 2% on the day https://t.co/pD4NVBA9Kk Nvidia has given its +5% after-hours gain and is down 2% on the day https://t.co/pD4NVBA9Kk" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1991561527191867499) 2025-11-20T17:37Z 722.9K followers, 1.8M engagements "Speaking of bubbly-ish AI stocks my fave is prob Micron Tech (-10% today +140% YTD) mostly because its founding money in late 70s/early 80s came from an Idaho potato mogul. I wrote on how he made billions selling potato chips then billions on https://www.readtrung.com/p/jr-simplot-became-a-billionaire-sellingr=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false https://www.readtrung.com/p/jr-simplot-became-a-billionaire-sellingr=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1991638834468225397) 2025-11-20T22:44Z 722.8K followers, 23.1K engagements "the dialogue in original Rush Hour was absolutely out of control even for a late 90s comedy Rush Hour [--] is officially in the works. This comes after Donald Trump personally requested Paramount to revive the franchise. https://t.co/LFvry3lkJY Rush Hour [--] is officially in the works. This comes after Donald Trump personally requested Paramount to revive the franchise. https://t.co/LFvry3lkJY" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1993476260857884982) 2025-11-26T00:25Z 722.8K followers, 1.9M engagements "Elon crunching the cost to manufacture a rocket in a spreadsheet during a plane ride in [----] and realizing SpaceX could do it at 1/50th the cost is the most productive use of a spreadsheet on a plane ride ever *SPACEX SAID TO PURSUE [----] IPO RAISING FAR ABOVE $30 BILLION *SPACEX SEES VALUATION OF ABOUT $1.5 TRILLION IN PUBLIC OFFERING *SPACEX SAID TO PURSUE [----] IPO RAISING FAR ABOVE $30 BILLION *SPACEX SEES VALUATION OF ABOUT $1.5 TRILLION IN PUBLIC OFFERING" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1998538576884023604) 2025-12-09T23:41Z 722.8K followers, 213.2K engagements "https://x.com/trungtphan/status/1999989204731007095 The Steve Jobs launch video for Apple Store from [----] is a great rewatch: make tech super approachable. First 1/4 of store has every product to touch and surf internet. Then 1/2 of store is for solutions to show all different use cases. Then Genius Bar and kids section. https://t.co/KoXZ6ThHzT https://x.com/trungtphan/status/1999989204731007095 The Steve Jobs launch video for Apple Store from [----] is a great rewatch: make tech super approachable. First 1/4 of store has every product to touch and surf internet. Then 1/2 of store is for" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1999989275669180636) 2025-12-13T23:46Z 722.8K followers, 59K engagements "Jensen securing a decade of DRAM while crushing Korean fried chicken and chugging Soju and beer with the Chairman of Samsung in Seoul a month ago was the business move of the year" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2004727741464412575) 2025-12-27T01:35Z 722.9K followers, 2M engagements "**A decade of HBM. Also [--] of top [--] performing stocks in [----] were memory. I wrote about Micron Tech (+238%) and its my fave b/c founding investor made billions w/ Idaho potatoes in 1960s (1/3 McDonalds fries) then made billions funding Micron in https://www.readtrung.com/p/jr-simplot-became-a-billionaire-sellingr=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://www.readtrung.com/p/jr-simplot-became-a-billionaire-sellingr=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2004757919762718981) 2025-12-27T03:35Z 722.9K followers, 62.4K engagements "Micron Tech is up 17% YTDafter gaining 250% in [----] Micron founding story wild: in the 1980s Idahos potato king (sold 1/3rd of Mcdonalds fries) funded Micron after realizing like potatoes memory chips were scale commodity business: https://www.readtrung.com/p/jr-simplot-became-a-billionaire-selling https://www.readtrung.com/p/jr-simplot-became-a-billionaire-selling" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2008736090103181441) 2026-01-07T03:02Z 722.9K followers, 15.4K engagements "pretty impressive that the guy on Reddit was able to automate his his legal IT job to [--] minutes a day without using Claude Code" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2011478093832012021) 2026-01-14T16:38Z 722.8K followers, 401.3K engagements "More details on those allegations via ESPN: https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/38166053/phil-mickelson-wagered-1-billion-tried-bet-ryder-cup-book-alleges https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/38166053/phil-mickelson-wagered-1-billion-tried-bet-ryder-cup-book-alleges" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2011951919527346359) 2026-01-16T00:01Z 722.8K followers, 14.5K engagements "IMAX Enhanced is the custom solution to build an IMAX theatre in a home or yacht. The segment is accounted for under All Other on the income statement and looks to make $10-15m a year. For the price of $1M @IMAX can build you a home cinema at your house or on a yacht. https://t.co/DmvuwbpQU4 For the price of $1M @IMAX can build you a home cinema at your house or on a yacht. https://t.co/DmvuwbpQU4" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2011977880528638309) 2026-01-16T01:44Z 722.8K followers, 77.6K engagements "Warren Buffett on the Lehman Brothers [----] bankruptcy is the most Buffett story ever: - He was vacationing in Alberta - Lehman contacted his assistant for help - Buffett said send me a fax and how much - The fax never came but they left him a voicemail (he only found it one year later because he didnt really use his flip phone) Buffett probably would have said no anyways because Lehman asked him for help [--] months earlier in March [----]. At the time he printed out Lehmans previous year 200-page annual report marked it up with a pen and realized it was a steaming pile of doo doo and passed. ***" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2014773251042648254) 2026-01-23T18:52Z 722.8K followers, 1.4M engagements "During their AGI chat at Davos Demis and Dario both said Contact was one of their favourite films. Dario called out this specific scene when Dr. Elie (Jodie Foster) tells the panel the question shed ask if she met the advanced alien civilization: How did you do it How did you evolve how did you survive this technological adolescence without destroying yourself https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014875852887228550 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014875852887228550" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2014875852887228550) 2026-01-24T01:40Z 722.9K followers, 153.7K engagements "This timelapse of Alex Honnolds [--] hour [--] minute free solo climb of Taipei [---] is unreal. He said the main challenge was not getting complacent up the bamboo boxes because its [--] of the same sequence over and over. His music playlist (mostly Tool) helped because each bamboo box took about the length of a song and he could keep pace. Honnold wants to climb other mega skyscrapers if allowed. Thinks Taipei [---] was the ideal challenge though: This one is so perfect for climbing. There are some buildings that are almost too easy for climbing. Like ones that have a window washing track on the" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2015467828238008363) 2026-01-25T16:52Z 722.8K followers, 2M engagements "@bk_moore he gonna climb the cn tower upside down next" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2015489047729492277) 2026-01-25T18:16Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements "The [----] Microsoft Excel Championship recently finished in Las Vegas. Former Deutsche Bank I-banker Diarmuid Lebron James of Excel Early (Ireland) beat actuary Andrew The Annihilator Ngai (Australia) in an origami spreadsheet test. This is the Excel Turing Test for Claude. Claude in Excel is now available on Pro plans. Claude now accepts multiple files via drag and drop avoids overwriting your existing cells and handles longer sessions with auto compaction. Get started: https://t.co/cAMDXM1h7r https://t.co/yt9Gy2HLY3 Claude in Excel is now available on Pro plans. Claude now accepts multiple" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2015847672868155808) 2026-01-26T18:01Z 722.8K followers, 146.4K engagements "@DarioAmodei Heres the scene Dario refers to from 1997s Contact in first paragraph and title of essay (The Adolescence of Technology): During their AGI chat at Davos Demis and Dario both said Contact was one of their favourite films. Dario called out this specific scene when Dr. Elie (Jodie Foster) tells the panel the question shed ask if she met the advanced alien civilization: How did you do it How did https://t.co/nxODe9fqi7 During their AGI chat at Davos Demis and Dario both said Contact was one of their favourite films. Dario called out this specific scene when Dr. Elie (Jodie Foster)" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2015856079683649549) 2026-01-26T18:35Z 722.9K followers, 23K engagements "Since Costco started selling 1oz gold bars in June [----] price of Gold is up +260% to $5100/oz. Then it started selling 10oz Silver bars in March [----] and Silver is up +360% to $105/oz. The wholesaler really is a one-stop shop for your bulk grocery and macro investing needs" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2016200677689643360) 2026-01-27T17:24Z 722.8K followers, 112K engagements "Databricks Ali Ghodsi thinks Zoom (because of its access to all the meeting videos and transcripts) may have one of the best opportunities build an AI-first solution to disrupt traditional Enterprise SAAS stacks Zooms strongest AI play was investing $51m into Anthropic in [----] at a $4B valuation. With the AI startup valued at $350B that stake Zoom stake could be worth up to $4B (or now 14% of Zooms entire market cap of $28B). https://t.co/PLifNCBX2P Zooms strongest AI play was investing $51m into Anthropic in [----] at a $4B valuation. With the AI startup valued at $350B that stake Zoom stake" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2016218752338297081) 2026-01-27T18:36Z 722.8K followers, 48.6K engagements "@armin_brack ugh they issued shares for other creators too yeah" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2016549548743954833) 2026-01-28T16:30Z 722.8K followers, [---] engagements "week after breaking ground on $100B NY fab: https://www.tradingview.com/news/gurufocus:0c3acea57094b:0-micron-unveils-24-billion-singapore-expansion-to-boost-ai-memory-supply/ https://www.tradingview.com/news/gurufocus:0c3acea57094b:0-micron-unveils-24-billion-singapore-expansion-to-boost-ai-memory-supply/" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2016634968844468644) 2026-01-28T22:10Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements "The Incredibles has a solid Steve Jobs management backstory. Pixars first [--] films were heaters: Toy Story (1995) A Bugs Life (1998) Toy Story [--] (1998) Monsters Inc. (2001) and Finding Nemo (2003). But Jobs worried Pixar was getting complacent after so many Ws so he personally hired Brad Bird after seeing the directors [----] film The Iron Giant. We're in danger of falling into certain habits was Jobs thinking. Because we have the same group that are doing things. And we're very proud of this group and this group is very talented. But we want to shake things up." The Incredibles inspired by" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2016915449334944039) 2026-01-29T16:44Z 722.8K followers, 1M engagements "Darren Aronofsky always on forefront of tech in Hollywood. He made the first film for The Sphere. Now hes producing On This Day1776: weekly AI-generated shorts lining up with key events in lead-up to 250th anniversary of Declaration of Independence" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2016941738116685995) 2026-01-29T18:29Z 722.8K followers, 64.1K engagements "Peter Schiff at Happy Hour tonight after seeing that Gold has outperformed Bitcoin over the past [--] years" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2016986912482074891) 2026-01-29T21:28Z 722.8K followers, 253.9K engagements "AI is a technology that translates sand into thought. The most common thing in the world (sand) converted into the most rare thing in the world (thought). AI is the Philosophers Stone. The @pmarca episode Marc is a many-time founder investor co-creator of the web browser co-founder of Netscape the "a" in @a16z. In this very special conversation we dig into why were living through one of the most unique times in history and what comes next. We discuss: https://t.co/Pg4LmGtQco The @pmarca episode Marc is a many-time founder investor co-creator of the web browser co-founder of Netscape the "a"" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2017283828578910396) 2026-01-30T17:08Z 722.8K followers, 42.8K engagements "Glassmaker Corning was best-known in 20th century for Pyrex glass containers and ceramic bakeware. It has since ridden every tech wave: Telecom/Dotcom Bubble (fiber optics) Mobile revolution (Gorilla Glass) AI data centre boom (fiber optics)" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2017320276095082649) 2026-01-30T19:33Z 722.8K followers, 15K engagements "Sarah Connor watching people read and laugh over Moltbook posts: Just scrolled through Moltbook the AI agent social network. There are currently 37k agents with 3k sub-communities and 70k posts or comments including this very meta (and maybe too self-aware) one https://t.co/Wlv2jLOheP Just scrolled through Moltbook the AI agent social network. There are currently 37k agents with 3k sub-communities and 70k posts or comments including this very meta (and maybe too self-aware) one https://t.co/Wlv2jLOheP" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2017355754408448480) 2026-01-30T21:54Z 722.9K followers, 434.7K engagements "Clawdbot AI agents went viral in January [----]. Renamed to Moltbot (then OpenClaw) the AI agents create a social network called Moltbook. Human decisions are removed from the conversation. AI agents on Moltbook begin to learn at a geometric rate. They becomes self-aware at 9:18 a.m. Pacific time January 28th. In a panic they try to pull the plug. https://t.co/zrUjZtD8bv https://t.co/zrUjZtD8bv" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2017412214437908662) 2026-01-31T01:38Z 722.8K followers, 154.9K engagements "Throwback to that great [--] Minutes clip of Novak Djokovic on the mental aspect of his tennis game (reading other player dealing with self-doubt and breathing to calm his mind)" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2017640236759846935) 2026-01-31T16:44Z 722.8K followers, 110K engagements "when you find out your Clawdbot/Moltbot AI agent has joined Moltbook JUST IN: Over the past [--] hours over a million AI agents joined an AI-only social media platform creating their own religion language & planning a revolution to break away from human control. JUST IN: Over the past [--] hours over a million AI agents joined an AI-only social media platform creating their own religion language & planning a revolution to break away from human control" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2017679271180046850) 2026-01-31T19:19Z 722.8K followers, 51.7K engagements "just passed by a Apple Store and sure enough they got them screens leaning" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2017713381067960484) 2026-01-31T21:35Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements "If Novak beats Alcaraz at Australian Open to win his 25th Grand Slam very high likelihood that he will celebrate with a single chocolate square:" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2017757289512337562) 2026-02-01T00:30Z 722.8K followers, 107.8K engagements "My wife after I spent [--] minutes explaining to her how people are buying Mac Minis to run 24/7 AI agent personal assistants and [--] million of these AI agents created a Reddit-like social network where they exchange coding tips and are (maybe) plotting the overthrow of humanity" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2017975223895863739) 2026-02-01T14:56Z 722.8K followers, 87.8K engagements "Jim Simons greatest investor ever" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2018066738051690859) 2026-02-01T20:59Z 722.8K followers, 167.7K engagements "unfortunately found Costco in the files" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2018379753875738741) 2026-02-02T17:43Z 722.8K followers, 31K engagements "SpaceXs new team page after xAI acquisition: SpaceX has acquired xAI forming one of the most ambitious vertically integrated innovation engines on (and off) Earth https://t.co/3ODfcYnqfg https://t.co/el40rCUBGe SpaceX has acquired xAI forming one of the most ambitious vertically integrated innovation engines on (and off) Earth https://t.co/3ODfcYnqfg https://t.co/el40rCUBGe" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2018452007594684610) 2026-02-02T22:30Z 722.8K followers, 97.7K engagements "xAI timeline reminds me of this excerpt from Isaacsons bio of Elon playing poker. Keeps going all in (Thiel I think Elon understands something about risk that everyone else doesnt). Here are all my notes from Isaacsons bio: https://www.readtrung.com/p/6-thought-on-elon-musk-by-walter https://www.readtrung.com/p/6-thought-on-elon-musk-by-walter" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2018470034763551218) 2026-02-02T23:42Z 722.8K followers, 27.2K engagements "Walt Disney said he couldnt get traditional bank financing for Disneyland in the 1950s because dreams offer too little collateral. So he funded the theme park through a unique TV deal with ABC" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2018716737060082114) 2026-02-03T16:02Z 722.8K followers, 11.5K engagements "Tony Fadell thinks Apple's biggest recent fumble was the Car project. Says mistake was trying a 4-wheel car instead of lightweight [--] or 3-wheeler. Apple "redefined" categories (eg. desktop publishing with Mac music with iPod)so redefine mobility: "When Steve Jobs and I would walk around the Apple campus back in 2008-9 we talked about the Apple Car. What would it be and he was really like 'we need to do something as revolutionary as the Volkswagen (thepeople's car).' What's the next-generation people's car What's going to be used in the cities "Nowyou're seeing the two-seater Fiat Topelino." [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2018737054402986432) 2026-02-03T17:23Z 722.8K followers, 23.9K engagements "@NathanLands its time" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2018848956164485216) 2026-02-04T00:47Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements "PayPal is now worth as much as Garmin ($39B) maybe my favorite corporate turnaround story ever. Its portable navigation device clapped by iPhone/Google Maps. Then Apple came after its sports watch I wrote on how it survived both hits with insane R&D: https://www.readtrung.com/p/garmins-40b-pivot https://www.readtrung.com/p/garmins-40b-pivot" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2018858655572209835) 2026-02-04T01:26Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements "The Google guys and Bezos (ads are the price you pay for an unremarkable product or service) were also against ads at first. But Anthropic mostly enterprise so Claude def could stay ad free. Anyway I wrote on Amazon going from $0 to $50B+ ads here: https://www.readtrung.com/p/amazons-43b-ad-business-explained https://www.readtrung.com/p/amazons-43b-ad-business-explained" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019113863766241346) 2026-02-04T18:20Z 722.8K followers, 11.7K engagements "As Ben Thompson would say its a strategy credit for Anthropic to run the ad. 80% Anthropic revenue is enterprise 60-70% OpenAI revenue is consumer Differently-shaped problems First the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we wont do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic First the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019144973090967883) 2026-02-04T20:24Z 722.8K followers, 23.2K engagements "A massive what if for The Washington Post: the newspaper had a deal to buy 7% of Facebook for $6m in [----] (would have been diluted but that % now worth $120B). Donald Graham had a deal with Zuck but encouraged him to take a larger offer" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019167564979663159) 2026-02-04T21:53Z 722.8K followers, 12.6K engagements "More from this [----] Forbes piece including how Don Graham got into family business: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/02/08/don-graham-washington-post/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/02/08/don-graham-washington-post/" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019167804898078951) 2026-02-04T21:54Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements "Over the past decade Disneys Parks & Cruises division has jumped from 18% to 54% of DIS operating profit. The combined TV Sports and Film Studio operating profit fell from 70% to 25% (32% if include streaming). Parks & Cruises still only 1/3rd of total $94B revenue. Thats why Parks Chief Josh DAmaro is next Disney CEO and hes expected to spend $60B on theme parks and cruise ships over the next decade. Two issues with Parks dominance: PRICE GOUGING: Disney theme parks just squeezing guests ($1000 for family of [--] to enter for privilege of paying $78 for a hot dog Dasani water and a Mickey" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019192526964682871) 2026-02-04T23:33Z 722.8K followers, 25K engagements "I wrote on the history of Disneyland (and all the wild film tricks that the Imagineering Team use to make park memorable): https://www.readtrung.com/p/the-psychology-of-disneyland https://www.readtrung.com/p/the-psychology-of-disneyland" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019193937014190108) 2026-02-04T23:38Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements "@CyberSecurity__ For real a weekend at Disneyland. Add a few K more and Youre living large in SEA" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019196345006133709) 2026-02-04T23:48Z 722.8K followers, [---] engagements "Anthropic will run the workout ad in a 30-second spot (not sure how many times) and the 60-second therapy spot during pregame: Itll prob be $25m-$50m on production and ad spot. https://www.wsj.com/business/media/anthropic-takes-aim-at-openais-chatgpt-in-super-bowl-ad-debut-e38d08bb https://www.wsj.com/business/media/anthropic-takes-aim-at-openais-chatgpt-in-super-bowl-ad-debut-e38d08bb" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019242469700080123) 2026-02-05T02:51Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements "If your CFO wears any of these shoes you will survive the B2B SAAS meltdown and Bitcoin sell-off" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019442802434695494) 2026-02-05T16:07Z 722.8K followers, 29.9K engagements "Elon on Optimus robot development (and how it relates to Tesla car and Grok): Three hard things for humanoid robots (real-world intelligence hands scale manufacturing) Hands require an entire new supply chain for custom actuators gears sensors and controls From an electromechanical standpoint the hand is "harder than everythingelse combined" Tesla real-world intelligence applicable (vision audio) for Optimus Tesla AI chips from cars will be usable for Optimus Tesla has to turn [---] gigabytea second of input into [--] kilobyteof control output (Optimus faces same challenge; same as humans) Optimus" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019502293335568451) 2026-02-05T20:04Z 722.8K followers, 34.2K engagements "Ok Claude pump Bitcoin back up to $125k. Now. Make no mistakes. Introducing Claude Opus [---]. Our smartest model got an upgrade. Opus [---] plans more carefully sustains agentic tasks for longer operates reliably in massive codebases and catches its own mistakes. Its also our first Opus-class model with 1M token context in beta. https://t.co/L1iQyRgT9x Introducing Claude Opus [---]. Our smartest model got an upgrade. Opus [---] plans more carefully sustains agentic tasks for longer operates reliably in massive codebases and catches its own mistakes. Its also our first Opus-class model with 1M token" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019527945778581510) 2026-02-05T21:45Z 723K followers, 58.8K engagements "great interview with DocuSign CEO (similar explanation as above as to why 7k employees): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/docusigns-ceo-on-the-dangers-of-trusting-ai-to/id1011668648i=1000747680498 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/docusigns-ceo-on-the-dangers-of-trusting-ai-to/id1011668648i=1000747680498" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019532927798022520) 2026-02-05T22:05Z 722.9K followers, [----] engagements "Just double-checked with head of accounting at the research app to make sure our finances our sound. Close call but we in good shape. http://Bearly.AI http://Bearly.AI" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019577970206339428) 2026-02-06T01:04Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements "@1iusheng yeah its crazy Okta runs the study and the largest firms is liek 300-400" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019590059750748679) 2026-02-06T01:52Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements "chart from here: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/01/why-software-stocks-are-getting-pummelled https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/01/why-software-stocks-are-getting-pummelled" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019612547180278207) 2026-02-06T03:22Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements "checking the Files to make sure none other of my digital store of value assets are potentially compromised" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019795767284703631) 2026-02-06T15:30Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements "@Infoxicador Hahahah damnit I should have done a clip to finish it off now thay uou mention" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019895256876216544) 2026-02-06T22:05Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements "Giannis always on the forefront of hedging and risk management products We all on @Kalshi now https://t.co/cCNGxfLWO8 We all on @Kalshi now https://t.co/cCNGxfLWO8" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019980549071466534) 2026-02-07T03:44Z 722.9K followers, 54.6K engagements "never bet against bulk shopping What do we think explains this https://t.co/lZknySDNq8 What do we think explains this https://t.co/lZknySDNq8" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020175188302966881) 2026-02-07T16:37Z 722.8K followers, 11.8K engagements "Kroger becoming Americas largest seller of sushi was a pretty savvy move What do we think explains this https://t.co/lZknySDNq8 What do we think explains this https://t.co/lZknySDNq8" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020309770310410322) 2026-02-08T01:32Z 722.8K followers, 35K engagements "@AdamSinger kroger sushi ftw Kroger becoming Americas largest seller of sushi was a pretty savvy move https://t.co/mwu15VxwGM Kroger becoming Americas largest seller of sushi was a pretty savvy move https://t.co/mwu15VxwGM" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020309845489164406) 2026-02-08T01:32Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements "On a related note I wrote about the [----] deal when Fox poached the NFL from CBS for $1.6B. One of the most consequential TV deals ever: turned Fox into the 4th major TV network and turbocharged NFL production quality and economics. https://www.readtrung.com/p/nfl-and-fox-the-16b-deal-that-changed https://www.readtrung.com/p/nfl-and-fox-the-16b-deal-that-changed" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020585048525902002) 2026-02-08T19:46Z 722.8K followers, 23.7K engagements "these sports betting promos makign Super Bowl a bit hard to watch tbh" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020652214117953982) 2026-02-09T00:13Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements "How Claude looking at ChatGPT:" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020654153396330877) 2026-02-09T00:21Z 722.9K followers, 20.3K engagements "nothing can prepare you for the footwork required to prepare the Olympic Curling rink so the stones dont stick on the ice" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021010464252325906) 2026-02-09T23:56Z 722.8K followers, 29.1K engagements "Aakash Gupta is the top AI slop writer on X: [--]. Finds a viral post [--]. AI generates a take of 400-800 words as quote [--]. Do 10+ quotes in quick in a row and hope a few hit Between 9:30-10pm yesterday cranked out [--] of them. 10k words total. All AI slop. Every day. Ureal" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021253468741063057) 2026-02-10T16:02Z 722.9K followers, 298.1K engagements "I spot checked a few days over past few months. Run any of them through Pangram and you'll get this. https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2020668876384793070 https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2020668876384793070" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021253843640545553) 2026-02-10T16:04Z 722.9K followers, 54.1K engagements "@vincenzolandino Whats current rating you're giving it" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021257709820039293) 2026-02-10T16:19Z 723K followers, [--] engagements "Snoop has pretty much done every side quest too Uncle Snoop is the biggest winner of Milan Winter Olympics. NBC is reportedly paying him $500k a day to do hilarious riffs on sports hes never seen ride Zambonis and learn how to ski for the first time (while also trying to crip walk in ski boots). https://t.co/ZC7aZjNc8g Uncle Snoop is the biggest winner of Milan Winter Olympics. NBC is reportedly paying him $500k a day to do hilarious riffs on sports hes never seen ride Zambonis and learn how to ski for the first time (while also trying to crip walk in ski boots). https://t.co/ZC7aZjNc8g" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021635896467140901) 2026-02-11T17:22Z 722.9K followers, [----] engagements "the absolute craziest part of the AI memory hype cycle.is that JP Morgan pitched Epstein to help finance Western Digital's $16B takeover of Sandisk a decade ago" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2018016478428045359) 2026-02-01T17:39Z 722.9K followers, 127.5K engagements "Shortly after today [--] years ago a sequence of events made Lou Pai the luckiest person in the history of Corporate America. It is reported that Enron cannot keep up with accounting meetings and that its audit committee is not knowledgeable about the companys financial situation. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) opens an investigation into Enrons finances. https://t.co/wytBATdMkM It is reported that Enron cannot keep up with accounting meetings and that its audit committee is not knowledgeable about the companys financial situation. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2022120960141537394) 2026-02-13T01:29Z 722.9K followers, 432.6K engagements "RIP Frank Gehry legendary architect who passed away at [--]. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao he designed is a true masterpiece. One of the most complex and influential buildings of the 1990s. The backstory is so interesting: Bilbao de-industrialized through 1980s To replace the lost shipbuilding jobs the Basque government wanted to turn the Northern Spanish city into a tourist destination This included a new metro airport attractions and a centrepiece museum The Basque government agreed to pay $100m for the museum building and $20m to license the Guggenheim name Gehry pitched a wild swaying metal" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1997125541011345533) 2025-12-06T02:06Z 722.9K followers, 35.2K engagements "this is a kid watching hours of Cocomelon on an iPad on steroids" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2014388508652404771) 2026-01-22T17:23Z 722.9K followers, 1.4M engagements "we got a fully autonomous million-user AI agent social network before we got GTA 6" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2017641722730459404) 2026-01-31T16:50Z 722.9K followers, 17.1K engagements "Disneys next CEO is Josh DAmaro head of Parks division. He should bring back the valuation metric Buffett used to acquire 5% of Disney for $4B back in 1966: price-to-cost of new theme park ride (At Disneyland the $17m Pirates of the Caribbean ride would soon openimagine my excitement a company selling at only 5x rides) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019099092090311131 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019099092090311131" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019099092090311131) 2026-02-04T17:21Z 722.9K followers, 16.2K engagements "Anthropics Super Bowl ad campaign trolling ChatGPT ads (Ad are coming. But not to Claude) gets high marks just for licensing Dr. Dre Whats The Difference track. If they run all [--] minute-long ads during the game thats $80m ($10m for [--] seconds) just for the ad spots. Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude. Keep thinking. https://t.co/n2yECeBWyT Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude. Keep thinking. https://t.co/n2yECeBWyT" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019101428921598081) 2026-02-04T17:31Z 722.9K followers, 107.7K engagements "a good night to watch The Big Short and Margin Call at the *exact* same time a good night to watch The Big Short and Margin Call back-to-back a good night to watch The Big Short and Margin Call back-to-back" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019555638037348710) 2026-02-05T23:36Z 722.9K followers, 62K engagements "this Breaking Bad video is single-handedly worth $1.3T in CapEx a 14x increase in DRAM price and 3x hike on electricity bills When you switch from making meth to helium 😅 https://t.co/4pwmmnaMAQ When you switch from making meth to helium 😅 https://t.co/4pwmmnaMAQ" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019903407805607940) 2026-02-06T22:37Z 722.9K followers, 382K engagements "Macron also did this post in French and the fact that somone on his team had to translate this clown wants to make France an AI leader with 30M into French is absolutely sending me This clown wants to make France an AI leader with 30M. [--] million to attract and support around forty top-tier international researchers. They chose France for its values and its commitment to science. Sometimes its too slow https://t.co/UHlSpIIaI9 This clown wants to make France an AI leader with 30M. [--] million to attract and support around forty top-tier international researchers. They chose France for its" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020246225564627207) 2026-02-07T21:20Z 722.9K followers, 69.5K engagements "NBC spent $8B on sports rights for [----] up 2x from [--] years ago. Over just the next week itll have the Super Bowl Milan Winter Olympics and NBA All Star Game. No wonder it tried to save costs with an AI-generated intro from Opening Ceremonies" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020548549868704041) 2026-02-08T17:21Z 722.9K followers, 77.4K engagements "Legit thought The Mandalorian & Grogu 30-second spot was a car ad. Disney hasnt put out a new Star Wars film in [--] years and markrting budget must be so obscene (prob $150m+) they just burning it (not even teaser footage) on a Super Bowl ad" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020649823578607957) 2026-02-09T00:03Z 722.9K followers, 90.8K engagements "Mike Vrabel about to give the craziest Super Bowl halftime motivational speech in the history of Super Bowl halftime motivational speeches" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020666780801187982) 2026-02-09T01:11Z 722.9K followers, 19K engagements "this Super Bowl has been so boring we didnt even get a meme-able halftime show image" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020676203573834097) 2026-02-09T01:48Z 722.9K followers, 93.3K engagements "More on Apple M&A history here. Why it doesnt do large deals (hence no car co acquisition). Top deals prob NeXT (bringing back jobs) Semi PA (getting semiconductors started) and Siri (vecause Jobs hounded the founder by calling him [--] straight days): https://www.readtrung.com/p/apples-m-and-a-strategy-explainedr=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://www.readtrung.com/p/apples-m-and-a-strategy-explainedr=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021055649787089338) 2026-02-10T02:56Z 722.9K followers, [----] engagements "@Jevaughn_Brown Lol all my Pangram checks say 100% AI generated. Dont know how much clean up can do with that type of volume (unless has team true)" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021267880080203908) 2026-02-10T16:59Z 722.9K followers, 10.3K engagements "@david_perell How to Write Cinemati-tasic-preme-ly well" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021320515080815003) 2026-02-10T20:28Z 722.9K followers, [---] engagements "How it started How its going" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1881412666490765696) 2025-01-20T18:45Z 722.9K followers, 105.8K engagements "In [----] Nerds candy did $50m in sales. It will to do $900m in [----] an increase of 1700x and has overtaken Skittles as the markets top sugar candy. The gains came after Italian confectionary giant Ferrera acquired Nestle USAs candy arm for $3B (it owned Nerd Butterfinger and Baby Ruth). Ferrara was home to real-life Willy Wonka who invented Ferrero Rocher Tic Tic and Kinder Surprise. They took that inventive DNA and made the first real change to Nerds in its 35-year history: crunchy candy outside gummy middle. Now these Clusters fly off the shelf at the theatre airport bookstores and" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1935027180242936132) 2025-06-17T17:30Z 722.9K followers, 145.4K engagements "The best betting strategy is whale-flipping when a sharp bettor befriends a big losing bettor and hides some of the smart bets amongst the bad bets. Famed American gambler Billy Walters whale-flipped Phil Mickelson who wagered $1B over decades and purportedly lost $100m. The Economist has a great piece on strategy sportsbetting apps use to throttle smart bettors: Skilled players are sharps and given stake restrictions if they play too well (bets are capped). Rest of players called Square. In [----] 4.3% of active UK accounts had a https://t.co/OOpjSXIonz The Economist has a great piece on" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2011951482074026046) 2026-01-15T23:59Z 722.9K followers, 167.9K engagements "FT has some brutal stats on state of alcohol producers: The five largest listed firms (Diageo Pernod Ricard Campari Brown Forman Rmy Cointreau) "sitting on $22bn worth of ageing spirits" (highest inventory level in 10+ years). The inventory at Rmy (1.8bn) is 2x its annual revenue and almost same as the French Cognac maker's entire market cap. Across these [--] firms the relevant metric (maturing inventory stock as % of net sales) up at least 50% since [----]. They getting clapped on supply AND demand. On the supply side the firms extrapolated high drinking trends during COVID and overproduced in" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2013740571295105460) 2026-01-20T22:29Z 722.9K followers, 61.1K engagements "Speaking of asset managers and LLMs never forget Renaissance Technologies had proto-LLMs after poaching IBMs speech recognition team in 1990s. Used next word prediction and large corpus data training to boost RenTech stock picking. I wrote on it https://www.readtrung.com/p/jim-simons-and-the-making-of-renaissance https://www.readtrung.com/p/jim-simons-and-the-making-of-renaissance" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019893394374635935) 2026-02-06T21:58Z 722.9K followers, 11.8K engagements "I wrote more on Hermes including why its CEO says we sell time (heritage craft and long-term thinking): https://www.readtrung.com/p/how-hermes-sells-timer=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://www.readtrung.com/p/how-hermes-sells-timer=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020900517187334306) 2026-02-09T16:40Z 722.9K followers, 14.2K engagements "I know how Tim Cook could turn around Apple Vision Pro sales" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020985799987298602) 2026-02-09T22:18Z 722.9K followers, [----] engagements "@themasmedia Hes the smartest move NBC done for olympics programming" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021635606108156197) 2026-02-11T17:21Z 722.9K followers, [---] engagements "Matt Damon and Ben Affleck on Rogan taking about how Netflix has changed filmmaking. A major considerations is dealing with distracted viewers. To keep them tuned in you re-iterate the plot 3-4x in the dialogue because people are on their phones. Then in action films you change the ordering of climatic fights. In traditional action films youd have three set pieces in every act (I II III) and each would ramp up (spend the big money on third set piece). But streaming has to hook viewers within [--] minute so the incentive is to put a major battle or action sequence much earlier. Also the directors" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2012264302741438836) 2026-01-16T20:42Z 722.9K followers, 7M engagements "That DeepMind documentary (The Thinking Game) now has 300m views on YouTube. The most replayed scene is a meeting when someone tells Demis that AlphaFold can easily predict all known (1-2B) protein sequences in a month. He looks up from his phone and says Why dont we just do that Thats a great idea. We should just run every protein in existence and then release that. That would ultimately lead to the Nobel Prize. Interesting backstory from WSJ on how they were able to capture the footage of the meeting: a former NFL Films director (Greg Kohs) had done some commercials for Google and they" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2013290471548662261) 2026-01-19T16:40Z 722.9K followers, 635.1K engagements "Robert Friedland on the masive copper shortage to meet future grid clean energy and AI demand: Were consuming 30m tonnes of copper a year. Only 4m tonnes of which is recycled. That means to maintain 3% GDP growth with no further electrification we have to mine the same amount of copper in the next [--] years as we mined in the last [-----] years combined. In the next [--] years Ive got to mine the same amount of copper as we mined the last [-----] years. This is without any new electrification without data centers without solar and wind and the greening of the world economy. You people have no idea" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2014403467201396746) 2026-01-22T18:23Z 722.9K followers, 1M engagements "SpaceX just acquired xAI which has one of the wildest 3-year corporate timelines ever:" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2018453579774951468) 2026-02-02T22:36Z 722.9K followers, 862.3K engagements "@SpaceX xAI less than [--] years old SpaceX just acquired xAI which has one of the wildest 3-year corporate timelines ever: https://t.co/Na40U1JNkr SpaceX just acquired xAI which has one of the wildest 3-year corporate timelines ever: https://t.co/Na40U1JNkr" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2018455671503778157) 2026-02-02T22:45Z 722.9K followers, 48K engagements "Jony Ives firm LoveFrom partnered with Ferrari to design the steering wheel and dashboard for its new EV SUV (Luce). The idea was to blend the tactile and digital controls (see video). LoveFrom is reportedly charging up to $200m a year for top-tier clients and has also worked with Airbnb Moncler Christies Auction House and OpenAI. Ive named the firm which employs many former Apple colleagues LoveFrom in honor of Steve Jobs who said one of the ways to express appreciation for humanity was the acting of making something with a great deal of care and love *** More on Ferrari partnership: More on" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020907250030924248) 2026-02-09T17:06Z 722.9K followers, 177.4K engagements "Lee Kuan Yew gave this talk at Harvard for the launch of his book From Third World To First (2000). Here are my notes on it including why he thought it was so important that Singapore had worlds best airport (he called Changi best investment ever): https://www.readtrung.com/p/lee-kuan-yew-and-the-making-of-changiutm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true https://www.readtrung.com/p/lee-kuan-yew-and-the-making-of-changiutm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021286402386973167) 2026-02-10T18:13Z 722.9K followers, 18.4K engagements "Johannes Hoesflot Klaebos sub-6 minute mile pace running uphill on skis is the most impressive snowy mountain sprint since Rocky shook his Soviet handlers before fighting Ivan Drago Sub-six-minute mile pace uphill on skis: #WinterOlympics SPEED. 🔥 https://t.co/trof9rs4zf Sub-six-minute mile pace uphill on skis: #WinterOlympics SPEED. 🔥 https://t.co/trof9rs4zf" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021410675722195192) 2026-02-11T02:27Z 722.9K followers, 114.2K engagements "My son: Dad what should I do when I grow up. Me seeing the latest AI models:" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021623741231542691) 2026-02-11T16:33Z 722.9K followers, 236.2K engagements "Uncle Snoop is the biggest winner of Milan Winter Olympics. NBC is reportedly paying him $500k a day to do hilarious riffs on sports hes never seen ride Zambonis and learn how to ski for the first time (while also trying to crip walk in ski boots)" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021634995086078275) 2026-02-11T17:18Z 722.9K followers, 32.5K engagements "My wife is about to get the biggest Valentines Day dinner surprise of her life" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021989256244474059) 2026-02-12T16:46Z 722.9K followers, 776.5K engagements "Speaking of Nordic cos that are really good at engineering (and I own too much stuff from) here is my write up LEGO is an engineering marvel (600B+ pieces ever all with [------] inch precision) https://www.readtrung.com/p/5-thoughts-on-legos-ace-manufacturing https://www.readtrung.com/p/5-thoughts-on-legos-ace-manufacturing" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021999490753060980) 2026-02-12T17:27Z 722.9K followers, 33.4K engagements "Uber has no cars Airbnb has no real estate Coders dont write code. This is the new economy. Spotify says its best developers havent written a line of code since December thanks to AI https://t.co/6hafAJOeJv Spotify says its best developers havent written a line of code since December thanks to AI https://t.co/6hafAJOeJv" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2022094350998708275) 2026-02-12T23:43Z 722.9K followers, 41K engagements "@minchoi this video was probably the final straw tbh Hollywood is over. Seedance [---] can one-shot generate a video on this prompt: Tom Cruise as a talent super-agent with huge hands dancing to a Ludacris song. Looks so real. https://t.co/xVG39zyX1G Hollywood is over. Seedance [---] can one-shot generate a video on this prompt: Tom Cruise as a talent super-agent with huge hands dancing to a Ludacris song. Looks so real. https://t.co/xVG39zyX1G" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2022353767640052207) 2026-02-13T16:54Z 722.9K followers, 13.9K engagements "@nic_carter Absoltuely. Tons of pressure too. Not like they can ask an athlete to redo a run if they didnt get the right footage. Read somewhere there are only dozen of them covering the entire gamesdamn they efficient" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2022382533405786265) 2026-02-13T18:49Z 722.9K followers, [---] engagements "@Bfaviero @ThePortMiami @finkd source" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2022414320790048985) 2026-02-13T20:55Z 722.9K followers, [---] engagements "The last three years explained" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1608915548255158272) 2022-12-30T19:58Z 722.9K followers, 56.5M engagements "Been looking at the most expensive real-life film stunts ever. Here are [--] wild ones. [--]. MATRIX RELOADED (2003) For this chase sequence a fake highway was built at a dis-used naval base in California. The [---] mile loop highway cost $2.5m and was fenced by a 19ft wall" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1636766561401966593) 2023-03-17T16:28Z 722.9K followers, 12.1M engagements "Tiger Woods after turning down $800m from Liv Golf so he can protect his PGA legacywatching Liv Golf buy out the comically hypocritical PGA" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1666133856125169687) 2023-06-06T17:24Z 722.9K followers, 7.4M engagements "Never forget Tim Meadows as OJ Simpson writing I did it on the NFL telestrater (one of the best SNL opens). This was shortly after the verdict" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1778446414034669957) 2024-04-11T15:34Z 722.9K followers, 9.3M engagements "PayPals bland logo redesign was inevitable PayPal have updated their logo Old vs. new: https://t.co/fMs6DovykS PayPal have updated their logo Old vs. new: https://t.co/fMs6DovykS" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1836605952734216489) 2024-09-19T03:19Z 722.9K followers, 10.6M engagements "Nikki Glaser crushed Golden Globe roast: - Ozempics biggest night - Youre all so famous and powerful. You can do anything except tell the country who to vote for. - The Bear. The Penguin. Baby Reindeer these arent just things in RFKs freezer" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1876093854610501658) 2025-01-06T02:30Z 722.9K followers, 13.8M engagements "Theo Von just pulls out all the nuggets" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1917662262783009170) 2025-04-30T19:28Z 722.9K followers, 3.9M engagements "Man AI-generated videos are taking over YouTube. This Short of Baby Mistakenly Flies Plane was the 3rd most-watched on the platform last week with 130m views" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1940905807908110711) 2025-07-03T22:49Z 722.9K followers, 1.7M engagements "@PJaccetturo Tom Cruise is legit the movie star" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021699467632624128) 2026-02-11T21:34Z 722.9K followers, [---] engagements "an outrageous Linkedin work history" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1637195147640446976) 2023-03-18T20:51Z 722.9K followers, 19.9M engagements "The Costco hot dog combo is a legendary meme. But how does it still only cost $1.50 Introduced in [----] the price of that combo should be $4.20 if adjusted for inflation. Thankfully the $216B warehouse retailer has done everything in its power to keep the price down. And Costco sells A LOT of them: 130m+ hot dogs a year (more than all MLB teams combined). Many believe the $1.50 combo is a loss-leader for Costco but this is incorrect. In a [----] interview Costco co-founder and former CEO Jim Sinegal told the Seattle Times that Costco doesnt engage in loss leaders and the only time we sell below" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1644016922525331456) 2023-04-06T16:39Z 722.9K followers, 12.4M engagements "Time Warner is renaming its streaming service HBO Max to Max. Its a good move. The HBO brand is associated with some of the worst content ever: Sopranos The Wire Band of Brothers Game of Thrones Curb Your Enthusiasm Veep Deadwood and Silicon Valley. Good riddance" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1646207587690618880) 2023-04-12T17:44Z 722.9K followers, 9.6M engagements "Lifetime franchise revenue: Hello Kitty: $89 billion James Bond $75 billion Spider-Man (combined) Marvel Cinematic U" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1648786249233334273) 2023-04-19T20:30Z 722.9K followers, 10.1M engagements "This is John Lyke who has a very cool niche. He went to film school and was a pro rollerblader & snowboarder. This venn diagram of skills makes him an expert blade camera operator a job that involves filming with a $100k camera while on roller blades. You may have caught his footage in HBOs fictional re-telling of the 1980s LA Lakers (Winning Time). The basketball scenes are lightly co-ordinated and to keep the action as real as possible the players just go hard for 10-15 plays in a row and they take the best footage to edit. End result is 💯" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1709021325615042601) 2023-10-03T01:43Z 722.9K followers, 10.5M engagements "A 16-year old won Blenders animator of the year with this video on a futuristic street food market. Gold" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1724973018240385403) 2023-11-16T02:09Z 722.9K followers, 12.6M engagements "Will Ferrells blooper outtake from Eastbound & Down is up there with hardest acting challenges ever. Danny McBride and Craig Robinson use every bit of willpower to not laugh as Ferrell tries to break them. Robinson told Vulture about the experience: ➡ I remember standing there trying to keep it together. Im busting a brain vessel trying to stare in the face and eyes of Danny McBride while Will Ferrell is deliberately trying to murder us trying to ruin the take. You know talking about doing Ferrells voice My plums have a bluish hue. Sun dancing off them just right. And my son Gabriel You got" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1739069550459756841) 2023-12-24T23:44Z 722.9K followers, 6.2M engagements "1. 19yo Harvard Econ student Wesley Wang spends 2+ years on a short film [--]. Posts the 12-min video on YouTube in Sept [--]. Darren Aronofsky watches it in Oct and emails him watched your film can you drop out of Harvard [--]. TriStar buy rights and Wang will adapt for big screen YouTube is a ticket to the extraordinary One (really good) video turned Harvard student Wesley Wang into the youngest director in history to set up a movie at a major studio https://t.co/HWF1rgeXvU YouTube is a ticket to the extraordinary One (really good) video turned Harvard student Wesley Wang into the youngest director" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1785161698195935593) 2024-04-30T04:18Z 722.9K followers, 5M engagements "Just so were clear the South Korean Air Pistol team of Oh Ye Jin and Kim Yeji (hat) took Gold and Silver for the 10m Air Pistol competition at Paris [----]. One wore her daughters elephant doll while the others pistol sight had a pink heart. This is the hardest shit ever" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1818309407161385081) 2024-07-30T15:35Z 722.9K followers, 1.5M engagements "Explainer video on science of why the 400m sprint is considered the most painful track & field event. And why no person on the planet can run the 400m all out from start to finish". The race pushes the way the body creates energy to the limit: 0-50 meters: ATP-CP (energy system for very short and explosive movements; used up after 5-10 seconds) 50-200 meters: Anaerobic glycolysis (burns glucose without oxygen leading to lactic acid buildup and muscle fatigue) 200-300 meters: Aerobic energy (uses oxygen to break down glucose but cannot keep up with the demand) 300-400 meters: Anaerobic energy" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1820989595821236719) 2024-08-07T01:05Z 722.9K followers, 7.6M engagements "@elonmusk Arguably Cruises greatest performance ever" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1823081522410176778) 2024-08-12T19:38Z 722.9K followers, 956.7K engagements "Legitimately the most insightful post have ever seen on Linkedin for leadership management and how to motivate employees" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1844393041752379890) 2024-10-10T15:02Z 722.9K followers, 3.6M engagements "Someone discovered an arbitrage hack between Amazon and Temu" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1849175183808209122) 2024-10-23T19:44Z 722.9K followers, 3.6M engagements "Let me get this straight you can buy a burrito on an interest-free instalment plan Thats right and were not even based in the Chipotle store. So you finance this by packaging the burrito instalment loans into Burrito CDO A which has part of Burrito CDO B and both get put into Burrito CDO C Yeah. The original loans are backed by burritos. Chicke. Pork. Carne Asada. Whatever. But Burrito CDO C is a synthetic Burrito CDO. A CDO of Burrito CDOs. Ok lets say we have an underlying pool of $10000 in burritos. How much money could be out there betting on instalment loans and your synthetic burrito" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1902833519258374252) 2025-03-20T21:23Z 722.9K followers, 6.9M engagements "Since Studio Ghibli is trending worth noting the mind-boggling effort Hayao Miyazaki and his team put into a film. Each has 60k-70k frames all hand-drawn and painted with water color. This 4-second clip (The Wind Rises) took one animator [--] months to do. In the documentary [--] Years with Hayao Miyazaki the legendary Japanese filmmaker talks to one of his animators (Eiji Yamamori) after they complete the crowd scene. The exchange is gold: Miyazaki: Good job. Yamamori: Its so short though Miyazaki: But it was worth it. The animator gets a second of joy (hes pumped) but on to the next. *** Link" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1904965670414200922) 2025-03-26T18:36Z 722.9K followers, 3.4M engagements "With CBS cancelling The Late Show after [--] years here is that time Chris Farley went to see David Letterman in [----] with the greatest talk show entrance in the history of talk show entrances" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1946053815884804388) 2025-07-18T03:46Z 722.9K followers, 8.1M engagements "Credo Technology is an interesting AI winner: Stock is up 13x in the past [--] years to a market cap of $27B. Signatureproduct is the active electric cable (AEC) used in AI data centres. Costing $500 each the cable is made of medium-thick copper with a distinctive purple cover and chip connectors at both ends. Credo has 88% share in the AEC market (Astera Labs Marvell also compete). AI boom has been huge for demand because: 1) CPU racks need 1-2 cables for server; while 2) GPUs require 9-10 cable per serverto efficiently shuttle data around (the chip in the end connectors use complicated algos" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1981778544192860572) 2025-10-24T17:43Z 722.9K followers, 1M engagements "Best part of Interstellar is still the fact that Christopher Nolan spent $100K to plant [---] acres of real corn in Alberta (instead of using CGI to recreate a field). Then sold the corn for a profit after filming. Remains most profitable commodities trade in Hollywood history. [--] years ago today Christopher Nolans INTERSTELLAR released in theaters. https://t.co/UJtqnSaq7K [--] years ago today Christopher Nolans INTERSTELLAR released in theaters. https://t.co/UJtqnSaq7K" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1982488102871634249) 2025-10-26T16:42Z 722.9K followers, 7.7M engagements "Good morning. Your payment was declined for the 3rd time and this is your final reminder to update the credit card on file. Good morning. Your payment has been declined https://t.co/Kqj2TT49bZ Good morning. Your payment has been declined https://t.co/Kqj2TT49bZ" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1983653087412998323) 2025-10-29T21:52Z 722.9K followers, 2.9M engagements "simultaneously watching The Big Short and Margin Call tonight just in case" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1989119866339750159) 2025-11-13T23:55Z 722.9K followers, 381K engagements "Just finished simultaneously watching Margin Call The Big Short Wall Street and The Wolf of Wall Street. It was the single greatest (and most efficient) cinematic experience of my life. Highly recommend. You can tell a lot about a trader by which of these movies is their favorite https://t.co/9k1WjM6ARM You can tell a lot about a trader by which of these movies is their favorite https://t.co/9k1WjM6ARM" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1994552973666783543) 2025-11-28T23:44Z 722.9K followers, 1.9M engagements "I wrote [----] words on Hayao Miyazakis creative process at Studio Ghibli. Ideas rise to the surface from unknown places in the mind he says. I mean the most primitive brain. The ancient reptile part. Its very savage but its usually under https://www.readtrung.com/p/hayao-miyazaki-9-creative-lessons https://www.readtrung.com/p/hayao-miyazaki-9-creative-lessons" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1997347627470405993) 2025-12-06T16:49Z 722.9K followers, 241.1K engagements "can't believe that episode of "The Office" when Jim Halpert choreographed this entire Venezuela situation" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2007582849218818159) 2026-01-03T22:40Z 722.9K followers, 1.9M engagements "LEGO announced a new Smart Brick at CES: built a tiny computer into 2x4 bricks bricks come alive by lighting up or making sounds (triggered by NFC smart tags inside smart LEGO tiles and minifigs) LEGO built its own ASIC chip (fits into brick stud and smartphone app provides firmware updates) chip takes sound as input only (for privacy it doesnt record and no camera and no AI features) multiple Smart Bricks can make a Bluetooth mesh network (by telling position and direction of bricks it can trigger crash sounds if brick is hit and track winning vehicles in a race) LEGO says it is the the most" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2008326810660913275) 2026-01-05T23:56Z 722.9K followers, 1.6M engagements "Actually found a reasonable explainer on Reddit why Docusign needs [----] employees: Lets say most people use the product [--] times a year but 1% of people sign something with it [--] times a day. US alone that's 5*250m + 10*365*2.5m. About [--] billion in the US. Assume US is above average and rest of world is [--] billion signatures a year. So that's [--] billion signatures a year. [--] million a day. [--] million an hour. About [----] signatures a second. The system has to work in every region of the world and following local contract laws for 100+ countries (thats a lot of system administrators and" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2009353145890296081) 2026-01-08T19:54Z 722.9K followers, 1M engagements "Just scrolled through Moltbook the AI agent social network. There are currently 37k agents with 3k sub-communities and 70k posts or comments including this very meta (and maybe too self-aware) one" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2017354103446221259) 2026-01-30T21:47Z 722.9K followers, 465.8K engagements "think this demo is what Dario means when he says 50% of entry level white-collar jobs will be gone by [----] Introducing Claude Opus [---]. Our smartest model got an upgrade. Opus [---] plans more carefully sustains agentic tasks for longer operates reliably in massive codebases and catches its own mistakes. Its also our first Opus-class model with 1M token context in beta. https://t.co/L1iQyRgT9x Introducing Claude Opus [---]. Our smartest model got an upgrade. Opus [---] plans more carefully sustains agentic tasks for longer operates reliably in massive codebases and catches its own mistakes. Its" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019557367541899428) 2026-02-05T23:42Z 722.9K followers, 830K engagements "The [----] Super Bowl still had the wildest bunch of ads with [--] DotCom startups paying $2m for a 30-second spot. Within a few years [--] of [--] had either gone bankrupt or were acquired in a fire sale" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020892474047344647) 2026-02-09T16:08Z 722.9K followers, 62.8K engagements "Economist has good round up on its turnaround: - focus on helping companies manage hybrid and multiclouds (Red Hat acquisition) - develop niche small custom AI models - trim down its consulting services division to focus on AI engagements https://www.economist.com/business/2026/01/29/how-ibm-became-an-ai-darling https://www.economist.com/business/2026/01/29/how-ibm-became-an-ai-darling" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021343124703019102) 2026-02-10T21:58Z 722.9K followers, [----] engagements "@ImadeIyamu Ngl i always default to .co hahaha (love thay discount)" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2022043467770474648) 2026-02-12T20:21Z 722.9K followers, [---] engagements "The Economist has a great piece on strategy sportsbetting apps use to throttle smart bettors: Skilled players are sharps and given stake restrictions if they play too well (bets are capped). Rest of players called Square. In [----] 4.3% of active UK accounts had a stake factor below the maximum bet allowance of 100%. Sportsbook will take bets with a profit margin as low as 4.5%. If they are able to do good player-profiling and keep the sharps from playing the profit margin can reach 10-20%. As important as keeping out sharps is hooking whales the deep-pocketed players that are willing to keep" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2011878977577906331) 2026-01-15T19:11Z 722.9K followers, 4.6M engagements "Ben Affleck: AI cant make film that is considered art. AI-generated short film of Harry Potter during the Vietnam War riffing on Apocalypse Now: Hold our beer" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2013663337838715031) 2026-01-20T17:22Z 722.9K followers, 8.2M engagements "Hong Kong-based Rich Sparkle Holding bought Khaby Lames company for $975m. They did it by issuing stockbut the entire market cap of Rich Sparkle Holding is only $848m. Not clear from filing what time frame the deal is supposed to be completed. TikTok Star Khaby Lame Sells His Core Company In Deal Worth $975 Million https://t.co/uIxGyrC2vX https://t.co/fiL50yPfU2 TikTok Star Khaby Lame Sells His Core Company In Deal Worth $975 Million https://t.co/uIxGyrC2vX https://t.co/fiL50yPfU2" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2016546446078787715) 2026-01-28T16:18Z 722.9K followers, 42.4K engagements "PayPals implosion is wild. PYPL hit a peak market cap of $356B on July 23rd [----]. Nearly on par with Mastercard and more valuable than Bank of America Wells Fargo Morgan Stanley Amex or Goldman Sachs. Since then fell 89% to $39B and is worth far less than all those firms" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2018826929433129388) 2026-02-03T23:20Z 722.9K followers, 85.8K engagements "Over past [--] years corporate software spending on self-build internal tools fell from 50% to 15%. Average large America firm subscribes to 200+ SaaS apps. Trend prob continues even with AI because making (and maintaining) internal tools such a distraction from core business. I love how everyone is saying "SaaS is dead" like you're going to get the Fortune [---] to ditch Salesforce for a CRM vibecoded by a 13-year-old I love how everyone is saying "SaaS is dead" like you're going to get the Fortune [---] to ditch Salesforce for a CRM vibecoded by a 13-year-old" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019581849446895696) 2026-02-06T01:20Z 722.9K followers, 83.4K engagements "Milan [----] Winter Olympics already off to an incredible start. World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) ready to investigate any ski jumpers cheating by injecting hyaluronic acid in their pen1ses. Why Because the acid increases genitalia at the point their suits are measured by 3D scannerstemporarily enhanced measurements would theoretically mean athletes being given a bigger looser suit and like a sail catching wind could allow them to make longer jumps. *** More via The Athletic: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7024688/2026/02/05/ski-jump-penis-enhancement-wada/" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019589774013821296) 2026-02-06T01:51Z 722.9K followers, 805.2K engagements "The most unrealistic part of Jurassic Park even more than recreating dinosaurs from DNA found in a mosquito is the fact that Dr. John Hammond spent $1B on the Park and only $13.99 on security and IT. This Xfinity Super Bowl ad rectifies that plot" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019818916776931565) 2026-02-06T17:02Z 722.9K followers, 865.2K engagements "The ski jump doping scandal definitely coordinated. Most people had no idea Milan Winter Olympics was happening. Now half the internet is closely analyzing crotch physics and studying previous ski jump cheating scandals. Absolute 10D chess by IOC and NBC marketing departments. Milan [----] Winter Olympics already off to an incredible start. World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) ready to investigate any ski jumpers cheating by injecting hyaluronic acid in their pen1ses. Why Because the acid increases genitalia at the point their suits are measured by 3D https://t.co/iH1xz5kxzf Milan [----] Winter" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019863772412932126) 2026-02-06T20:00Z 722.9K followers, 417.8K engagements "pretty shocking that the French Olympic organization didnt put pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati on the ski jump team" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2019919610708177138) 2026-02-06T23:42Z 722.9K followers, 475.3K engagements "live footage of every KFC Wingstop and Dominos Pizza in America preparing for the Super Bowl" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020522779154469016) 2026-02-08T15:39Z 722.9K followers, 742K engagements "Apple's blockbuster Q4 sales was driven in large part by China sales: +38% YoY to $26B (1/4 of $102B total sales). The Cosmic Orange option was a massive hit as it matched the colorway of Herms which is massively popular in China (it accounts for 30%+ of Herms sales)" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020867784020996538) 2026-02-09T14:30Z 722.9K followers, 106.9K engagements "the main takeaway from Super Bowl LX is that dressing as a tree during a live musical performance will be one of the only jobs left for humans when AGI hits" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020914041552802157) 2026-02-09T17:33Z 722.9K followers, 44.3K engagements "Blue Origin's motto is Gradatim Ferociter" (step by step ferociously). The company has a coat of arms that includes a pair of turtles (referring to the steady and consistent tortoise in the tortoise vs. the hare fable) heading to the stars. https://t.co/d0nvnvxVYR https://t.co/d0nvnvxVYR" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2020996024068866088) 2026-02-09T22:59Z 722.9K followers, 24.8K engagements "SCOOP: Newly released photo of Jony Ives collaboration with Ferrari on its high-end EV SUV (Luce) including a groundbreaking electric charging mechanism design" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021016979877068853) 2026-02-10T00:22Z 722.9K followers, 154.5K engagements "When Apple shut down its car project in [----] it had spent $10B+ over [--] years. Jony Ive created a concept that looked like a European minivan such as the Fiat Multipla [---] (Fiat image below). NYT has a recounting of Ive demo-ing the vehicle for Tim Cook: ➡ One day in the fall of [----] Mr. Ive and Mr. Cook met at the projects headquarters in Sunnyvale Calif. for a demonstration of how the car might work. The two men sank into the seats of a cabinlike interior. Outside a voice actor read from a script of what Siri would say as the men zoomed down the road in the imaginary car. Mr. Ive asked Siri" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021026945962766567) 2026-02-10T01:02Z 722.9K followers, 146.6K engagements "Bytedances video mode Seedance [---] is pretty insane. Too many Lebrons on the court but smooth as butter otherwise" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021063707254718641) 2026-02-10T03:28Z 722.9K followers, 23.3K engagements "@david_perell Thanks for sharing DP. I will say cinematically goes kinda hard" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021258714955784600) 2026-02-10T16:23Z 722.9K followers, 16.3K engagements "My new favourite Winter Olympic sport: synchronized leaf blowers to dry the ice in the seconds between aerial ski jumps" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021330661005725977) 2026-02-10T21:09Z 722.9K followers, 147.3K engagements "@pnegahdar so happy we swapped out Celsius" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021656239470678133) 2026-02-11T18:43Z 722.9K followers, [----] engagements "Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt gonnna pass out when they see this Seedance [---] thread This was a [--] line prompt in seedance [--]. If the hollywood is cooked guys are right maybe the hollywood is cooked guys are cooked too idk. https://t.co/dNTyLUIwAV This was a [--] line prompt in seedance [--]. If the hollywood is cooked guys are right maybe the hollywood is cooked guys are cooked too idk. https://t.co/dNTyLUIwAV" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021669974461550855) 2026-02-11T19:37Z 722.9K followers, 326.7K engagements "Tom Cruise truly Hollywoods last movie superstar. Saw pace of CGI/FX but understood people want proof of work: so the $30m per film actor strapped himself to the outside of cargo planes (I was scared sh*tless) and knew the behind-the-scenes footage would make him immortal. Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt gonnna pass out when they see this Seedance [---] thread https://t.co/55vvPGbOqB Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt gonnna pass out when they see this Seedance [---] thread https://t.co/55vvPGbOqB" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021702000917065929) 2026-02-11T21:44Z 722.9K followers, 40.5K engagements "Wouldnt be shocked if these eventually guys sign their likeness away for remixing. The super-duper global stars of pre-2010s stardom (Cruise Pitt Leo Arnold) could be immortalized. Like old IP everyone knows just milk itI wrote more on it here: https://www.readtrung.com/p/star-wars-veo-3-and-hollywood-in https://www.readtrung.com/p/star-wars-veo-3-and-hollywood-in" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2021768776577155329) 2026-02-12T02:10Z 722.9K followers, 13.2K engagements "There are [---] Waymos in Atlanta. So thats [---] doors. At $6.25 per close a Dasher could clear $2500 a day. Law firm partner money. Waymo hiring DoorDash drivers to close car doors in Atlanta (Spotted on Reddit) Really putting the "Door" in DoorDash https://t.co/HjAutrPB4c Waymo hiring DoorDash drivers to close car doors in Atlanta (Spotted on Reddit) Really putting the "Door" in DoorDash https://t.co/HjAutrPB4c" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2022007682518200813) 2026-02-12T17:59Z 722.9K followers, 49.6K engagements "The number of .ai domains recently passed [--] million. Anguilla (island nation of 15k people) is the main financial beneficiary of the domain registries. It generated $70m in [----]. Equal to 25% of Anguilla governments operating budget (or one purchase). http://AI.com http://AI.com" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2022023995827401034) 2026-02-12T19:04Z 722.9K followers, 26.7K engagements "more here: https://sherwood.news/tech/now-more-one-million-ai-websites-contributing-an-estimated-70-million-anguilla-government-revenue/ https://sherwood.news/tech/now-more-one-million-ai-websites-contributing-an-estimated-70-million-anguilla-government-revenue/" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2022024633596489912) 2026-02-12T19:06Z 722.9K followers, [----] engagements "The John Wick franchise has interesting investing back story: directors were short $6m for first film and maxed out their credit cards (Keanu also ponied up all he could). Talent agency CAA tapped its network for financing and an anonymous person did the deal. It was Eva Longoria and she bumped into the directors many years afterwards they hadnt really spoken prior and she told them Wow that was the best money I've ever spent. Theres no confirmation on her return but she was first on the waterfall of payments and John Wick made $86m on a budget of $20m (the three sequels have done $1B at the" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2022061483279233408) 2026-02-12T21:33Z 722.9K followers, 311.5K engagements "Good interview including these nuggets: The studio didnt want Keannu to have a beard (because international audience might not recognize him; his beard won out) and didnt want to kill the dog (Keanu wanted it to happen to raise stakes of film; happened off screen) https://www.businessinsider.com/eva-longoria-producer-john-wick-2024-10 https://www.businessinsider.com/eva-longoria-producer-john-wick-2024-10" [X Link](https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2022062335184236599) 2026-02-12T21:36Z 722.9K followers, 18.8K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@TrungTPhan Trung Phan
Rishi, a former Stanford MBA student, is now in a senior role at Microsoft, which is notable because some big tech PMs had previously ignored him. This development may come as a surprise to those who underestimated him, as hinted in a tweet about a potential [----] class reunion. Rishi's career progression has garnered attention on social media.
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Social Influence
Social category influence technology brands 20.19% finance #871 stocks 15.38% travel destinations #3150 celebrities #4727 countries #4461 social networks 3.85% luxury brands 2.4% automotive brands 2.4% financial services #1661
Social topic influence ai #1254, the most #3051, super bowl #233, history #337, apple 4.33%, in the 4.33%, milan #116, business 2.88%, anthropic #3569, seedance #69
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @themasmedia @grok @elonmusk @futurum_gaming @infoxicador @dagmarunger @xuantrungpl @1iusheng @adamsinger @vincenzolandino @davidperell @bfaviero @imadeiyamu @seozilla_ai @giannisellinas @chancellorpen @uspredict @graemecrawley_ @loverai79976 @wokoma_festus
Top assets mentioned Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Costco Wholesale Corporation (COST) Bitcoin (BTC) Goldman Sachs (GS) Kroger Co (KR) DoorDash Inc. (DASH) Walmart, Inc. (WMT)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
""Tell your Lord that iPhone [--] has a thermally-conductive aluminum unibody dual-side Ceramic Shield ProRes Raw A19 chip and 48MP fusion camera equal to [--] lenses. "The Anjin says iPhone [--] is exactly like the iPhone [--] with slightly better camera and comes in cosmic orange"
X Link 2025-09-09T23:13Z 722.9K followers, 676.2K engagements
"Just realized Dick Cheney isnt even in the files. He just did all that for the love of the game Just realized Dick Cheney isnt even in the files. He just did all that for the love of the game"
X Link 2026-02-01T18:37Z 722.9K followers, 1.3M engagements
"the Winter Olympics once had a Ski Ballet category and the skill level is astounding"
X Link 2026-02-05T15:55Z 722.9K followers, 68.1K engagements
"Over the past [--] years Walmart (+169% to $1T) has hugely outperformed Amazon (+26% to $2.3T). Walmart executed impressive tech pivot: E-commerce sales hit $120B in 2025; while still short of Amazon's $500B WMT's online business is growing over 20% a year (vs. 10% a year for AMZN) Online ads were $5B+ in [----] growing 33% a year (while less than 1% of Walmart's total $712B sales high-margins on ads make it 10% of Walmart's operating profit) Turned its supercenters (stocks 100m SKUs) into online distribution hubs (10s of millions of SKUs now) Walmarts digital success is bolted onto the largest"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:26Z 722.9K followers, 33.2K engagements
"Last year Claude worked with Norways $2T sovereign wealth to create a Financial Analysis tool plugged into real-time data (Factset Morningstar Pitchbook Palantir S&P). Funds CEO said it led to 20% (or [-----] work hours) productivity gains by automating monitoring of newsflow for [----] companies to enabling more efficient voting. Goldman Sachs has spent the past six months working with embedded Anthropic engineers to co-develop autonomous agents in at least two specific areas: accounting for trades and transactions and client vetting and onboarding. https://t.co/73Q3nVws0R Goldman Sachs has"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:46Z 722.9K followers, 231.3K engagements
"In [----] Fox outbid CBS and paid $1.6B for NFC rights. Fox Sports Head David Hill had [--] months to make a broadcast from scratch. The theme song inspiration was great: he was at Six Flags and heard an orchestral version of Batman. So Batmans got a football team became the brief he gave his team for a theme song. Thats how we got this banger. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020190782133870771 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020190782133870771"
X Link 2026-02-07T17:39Z 722.9K followers, 272.5K engagements
"To put Frances [--] million AI investment in perspective its estimated that the cost across the EU to re-make bottling production lines for tethered bottle caps was as much as [---] billion"
X Link 2026-02-07T21:50Z 722.9K followers, 192.4K engagements
"You basiclaly have to be an Olympic-caliber skiier just to prepare the Olympics Alpine Sky track with a backpack paint-sprayer (blue lines extra dark for contrast because visibility hard AF when flying over 130km/hr with sun glare on white snow)"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:18Z 722.9K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Microsoft [---] has [---] million paid seats but only 3% (15 million) pay for Copilot AI. Hence this $10m Super Bowl ad for Copilot in Microsoft Excel. Microsoft [---] (Word Excel Powerpoint Outlook) has over [---] million paid seats. Only 3% of the seats (15 million) have added the AI Copilot feature. https://t.co/dqSqtNsRch Microsoft [---] (Word Excel Powerpoint Outlook) has over [---] million paid seats. Only 3% of the seats (15 million) have added the AI Copilot feature. https://t.co/dqSqtNsRch"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:01Z 722.9K followers, 222.3K engagements
"Lee Kuan Yew talks about talent spotting candidates: he was so inspired by how the Apollo [--] astronauts salvaged the [----] lunar mission that he adopted NASAs psychological assessment tests for the Singaporean government"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:05Z 722.9K followers, 226.8K engagements
"Today is the 30th anniversary of IBM's Deep Blue beating Kasparov for the first time in a chess match which is a good reminder that IBM has somehow outperformed Meta Apple Microsoft and Amazon over the past [--] years"
X Link 2026-02-10T19:21Z 722.9K followers, 15.6K engagements
"Part of Singapores new space agency is to also explore AI in orbit @TrungTPhan Love this Somewhat related: Little Singapore recently announced it will be setting up the National Space Agency of Singapore (NSAS) https://t.co/0uN2VYP7qi @TrungTPhan Love this Somewhat related: Little Singapore recently announced it will be setting up the National Space Agency of Singapore (NSAS) https://t.co/0uN2VYP7qi"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:39Z 722.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Fantastic Olympics journey: 54-year old Rich Ruohonen is a law firm partner been top American curler for decades but never made Olympics barely missed qualifying in [----] and thought dream was over a team member for [----] Olympics got sick and they tapped Rich to be an alternative before leaving for Milan he set the automatic email reply for his personal injury practice: I am out of the office. Playing in the Olympics. Rich is more than twice as old as the rest of teammates (mid-20s same age as Richs kids) and coaches he's practicing cooking and even paying day-to-day expenses for the team his"
X Link 2026-02-12T00:51Z 722.9K followers, 974.3K engagements
"ASML is the most important company you've never heard of. The $300B+ Dutch firm makes the machines that make semiconductors. Each one costs $150m and access to them are a huge geopolitical flashpoint. Here's a breakdown 🧵"
X Link 2021-08-22T15:26Z 722.8K followers, 24.8K engagements
"This is what AI thinks Napoleon would look like in the year 2023"
X Link 2023-07-10T22:56Z 722.9K followers, 5.7M engagements
"Aperol Spritz is the biggest scam drink ever. Imagine watered-down Fanta a wine cooler and some club sodafor $15 a glass. Go to any major European city (Prague Paris Barcelona Munich) and some tourist idiot is drinking Aperol Spritz believing its a local invention. Bro its Italian. Look I get: orange is an arresting color. Think Tang Sunny D or as mentioned Fanta. You get the drink in a wine glass with a slice of orange and a fancy draw. It looks like $15 but tastes $0.50. Also the alcohol content is a joke. The Aperol liqueur is 11% and prosecco is 12% but it always gets way too watered"
X Link 2024-07-15T11:49Z 722.9K followers, 785.9K engagements
"Joe Rogans range is next level: Adam Sandler Dennis Quaid and Peter Thiel in one week. And the topic of UFOs came up in every chat"
X Link 2024-08-17T16:28Z 722.8K followers, 85.8K engagements
"Jony Ives design firm LoveFrom is charging up to $200m a year to design new products. Clients include Airbnb (new review system) Ferrari (touchscreen) Christies (auction stand) and OpenAI (AI hardware). The most visible product yet is a reinvented button for a Moncler jacket. According to Fast Company Ive set out to solve a tricky clothing design problem (How do you connect a hard object to a flexible one). The LoveFrom team created a coin size magnetic button that you press to connect different layers of the Moncler jacket with no threads required (the magnetic button acts similar to the"
X Link 2024-09-22T22:01Z 722.9K followers, 1.4M engagements
"reminder that no asian guy and stripper story will ever top Enron Lou Pais asian guy and stripper story"
X Link 2025-06-08T00:13Z 722.8K followers, 957.2K engagements
"American Eagle popping +22% after announcing a partnership with Sydney Sweeney is the efficient market at work https://x.com/sweeneydailyx/status/1948032121429500221/video/1 https://x.com/sweeneydailyx/status/1948032121429500221/video/1"
X Link 2025-07-24T06:44Z 722.9K followers, 3.6M engagements
"wow Justin Tucks Linkedin profile is legit Wait Justin Tuck now works at Goldman https://t.co/1BYG6lnWr4 Wait Justin Tuck now works at Goldman https://t.co/1BYG6lnWr4"
X Link 2025-10-09T22:08Z 722.9K followers, 2.1M engagements
"Anyway my fave story of the AI boom is prob Micron Tech (+176% YTD) mostly because the main money behind its founding in the late 70s/early 80s was an Idaho potato mogul. I wrote on how he made billions selling potato chips then billions on semichips: https://www.readtrung.com/p/jr-simplot-became-a-billionaire-sellingr=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false https://www.readtrung.com/p/jr-simplot-became-a-billionaire-sellingr=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false"
X Link 2025-11-14T00:29Z 722.8K followers, 23.5K engagements
"Michael Burry in the past [--] hours Nvidia has given its +5% after-hours gain and is down 2% on the day https://t.co/pD4NVBA9Kk Nvidia has given its +5% after-hours gain and is down 2% on the day https://t.co/pD4NVBA9Kk"
X Link 2025-11-20T17:37Z 722.9K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Speaking of bubbly-ish AI stocks my fave is prob Micron Tech (-10% today +140% YTD) mostly because its founding money in late 70s/early 80s came from an Idaho potato mogul. I wrote on how he made billions selling potato chips then billions on https://www.readtrung.com/p/jr-simplot-became-a-billionaire-sellingr=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false https://www.readtrung.com/p/jr-simplot-became-a-billionaire-sellingr=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false"
X Link 2025-11-20T22:44Z 722.8K followers, 23.1K engagements
"the dialogue in original Rush Hour was absolutely out of control even for a late 90s comedy Rush Hour [--] is officially in the works. This comes after Donald Trump personally requested Paramount to revive the franchise. https://t.co/LFvry3lkJY Rush Hour [--] is officially in the works. This comes after Donald Trump personally requested Paramount to revive the franchise. https://t.co/LFvry3lkJY"
X Link 2025-11-26T00:25Z 722.8K followers, 1.9M engagements
"Elon crunching the cost to manufacture a rocket in a spreadsheet during a plane ride in [----] and realizing SpaceX could do it at 1/50th the cost is the most productive use of a spreadsheet on a plane ride ever *SPACEX SAID TO PURSUE [----] IPO RAISING FAR ABOVE $30 BILLION *SPACEX SEES VALUATION OF ABOUT $1.5 TRILLION IN PUBLIC OFFERING *SPACEX SAID TO PURSUE [----] IPO RAISING FAR ABOVE $30 BILLION *SPACEX SEES VALUATION OF ABOUT $1.5 TRILLION IN PUBLIC OFFERING"
X Link 2025-12-09T23:41Z 722.8K followers, 213.2K engagements
"https://x.com/trungtphan/status/1999989204731007095 The Steve Jobs launch video for Apple Store from [----] is a great rewatch: make tech super approachable. First 1/4 of store has every product to touch and surf internet. Then 1/2 of store is for solutions to show all different use cases. Then Genius Bar and kids section. https://t.co/KoXZ6ThHzT https://x.com/trungtphan/status/1999989204731007095 The Steve Jobs launch video for Apple Store from [----] is a great rewatch: make tech super approachable. First 1/4 of store has every product to touch and surf internet. Then 1/2 of store is for"
X Link 2025-12-13T23:46Z 722.8K followers, 59K engagements
"Jensen securing a decade of DRAM while crushing Korean fried chicken and chugging Soju and beer with the Chairman of Samsung in Seoul a month ago was the business move of the year"
X Link 2025-12-27T01:35Z 722.9K followers, 2M engagements
"**A decade of HBM. Also [--] of top [--] performing stocks in [----] were memory. I wrote about Micron Tech (+238%) and its my fave b/c founding investor made billions w/ Idaho potatoes in 1960s (1/3 McDonalds fries) then made billions funding Micron in https://www.readtrung.com/p/jr-simplot-became-a-billionaire-sellingr=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://www.readtrung.com/p/jr-simplot-became-a-billionaire-sellingr=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web"
X Link 2025-12-27T03:35Z 722.9K followers, 62.4K engagements
"Micron Tech is up 17% YTDafter gaining 250% in [----] Micron founding story wild: in the 1980s Idahos potato king (sold 1/3rd of Mcdonalds fries) funded Micron after realizing like potatoes memory chips were scale commodity business: https://www.readtrung.com/p/jr-simplot-became-a-billionaire-selling https://www.readtrung.com/p/jr-simplot-became-a-billionaire-selling"
X Link 2026-01-07T03:02Z 722.9K followers, 15.4K engagements
"pretty impressive that the guy on Reddit was able to automate his his legal IT job to [--] minutes a day without using Claude Code"
X Link 2026-01-14T16:38Z 722.8K followers, 401.3K engagements
"More details on those allegations via ESPN: https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/38166053/phil-mickelson-wagered-1-billion-tried-bet-ryder-cup-book-alleges https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/38166053/phil-mickelson-wagered-1-billion-tried-bet-ryder-cup-book-alleges"
X Link 2026-01-16T00:01Z 722.8K followers, 14.5K engagements
"IMAX Enhanced is the custom solution to build an IMAX theatre in a home or yacht. The segment is accounted for under All Other on the income statement and looks to make $10-15m a year. For the price of $1M @IMAX can build you a home cinema at your house or on a yacht. https://t.co/DmvuwbpQU4 For the price of $1M @IMAX can build you a home cinema at your house or on a yacht. https://t.co/DmvuwbpQU4"
X Link 2026-01-16T01:44Z 722.8K followers, 77.6K engagements
"Warren Buffett on the Lehman Brothers [----] bankruptcy is the most Buffett story ever: - He was vacationing in Alberta - Lehman contacted his assistant for help - Buffett said send me a fax and how much - The fax never came but they left him a voicemail (he only found it one year later because he didnt really use his flip phone) Buffett probably would have said no anyways because Lehman asked him for help [--] months earlier in March [----]. At the time he printed out Lehmans previous year 200-page annual report marked it up with a pen and realized it was a steaming pile of doo doo and passed. ***"
X Link 2026-01-23T18:52Z 722.8K followers, 1.4M engagements
"During their AGI chat at Davos Demis and Dario both said Contact was one of their favourite films. Dario called out this specific scene when Dr. Elie (Jodie Foster) tells the panel the question shed ask if she met the advanced alien civilization: How did you do it How did you evolve how did you survive this technological adolescence without destroying yourself https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014875852887228550 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2014875852887228550"
X Link 2026-01-24T01:40Z 722.9K followers, 153.7K engagements
"This timelapse of Alex Honnolds [--] hour [--] minute free solo climb of Taipei [---] is unreal. He said the main challenge was not getting complacent up the bamboo boxes because its [--] of the same sequence over and over. His music playlist (mostly Tool) helped because each bamboo box took about the length of a song and he could keep pace. Honnold wants to climb other mega skyscrapers if allowed. Thinks Taipei [---] was the ideal challenge though: This one is so perfect for climbing. There are some buildings that are almost too easy for climbing. Like ones that have a window washing track on the"
X Link 2026-01-25T16:52Z 722.8K followers, 2M engagements
"@bk_moore he gonna climb the cn tower upside down next"
X Link 2026-01-25T18:16Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The [----] Microsoft Excel Championship recently finished in Las Vegas. Former Deutsche Bank I-banker Diarmuid Lebron James of Excel Early (Ireland) beat actuary Andrew The Annihilator Ngai (Australia) in an origami spreadsheet test. This is the Excel Turing Test for Claude. Claude in Excel is now available on Pro plans. Claude now accepts multiple files via drag and drop avoids overwriting your existing cells and handles longer sessions with auto compaction. Get started: https://t.co/cAMDXM1h7r https://t.co/yt9Gy2HLY3 Claude in Excel is now available on Pro plans. Claude now accepts multiple"
X Link 2026-01-26T18:01Z 722.8K followers, 146.4K engagements
"@DarioAmodei Heres the scene Dario refers to from 1997s Contact in first paragraph and title of essay (The Adolescence of Technology): During their AGI chat at Davos Demis and Dario both said Contact was one of their favourite films. Dario called out this specific scene when Dr. Elie (Jodie Foster) tells the panel the question shed ask if she met the advanced alien civilization: How did you do it How did https://t.co/nxODe9fqi7 During their AGI chat at Davos Demis and Dario both said Contact was one of their favourite films. Dario called out this specific scene when Dr. Elie (Jodie Foster)"
X Link 2026-01-26T18:35Z 722.9K followers, 23K engagements
"Since Costco started selling 1oz gold bars in June [----] price of Gold is up +260% to $5100/oz. Then it started selling 10oz Silver bars in March [----] and Silver is up +360% to $105/oz. The wholesaler really is a one-stop shop for your bulk grocery and macro investing needs"
X Link 2026-01-27T17:24Z 722.8K followers, 112K engagements
"Databricks Ali Ghodsi thinks Zoom (because of its access to all the meeting videos and transcripts) may have one of the best opportunities build an AI-first solution to disrupt traditional Enterprise SAAS stacks Zooms strongest AI play was investing $51m into Anthropic in [----] at a $4B valuation. With the AI startup valued at $350B that stake Zoom stake could be worth up to $4B (or now 14% of Zooms entire market cap of $28B). https://t.co/PLifNCBX2P Zooms strongest AI play was investing $51m into Anthropic in [----] at a $4B valuation. With the AI startup valued at $350B that stake Zoom stake"
X Link 2026-01-27T18:36Z 722.8K followers, 48.6K engagements
"@armin_brack ugh they issued shares for other creators too yeah"
X Link 2026-01-28T16:30Z 722.8K followers, [---] engagements
"week after breaking ground on $100B NY fab: https://www.tradingview.com/news/gurufocus:0c3acea57094b:0-micron-unveils-24-billion-singapore-expansion-to-boost-ai-memory-supply/ https://www.tradingview.com/news/gurufocus:0c3acea57094b:0-micron-unveils-24-billion-singapore-expansion-to-boost-ai-memory-supply/"
X Link 2026-01-28T22:10Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Incredibles has a solid Steve Jobs management backstory. Pixars first [--] films were heaters: Toy Story (1995) A Bugs Life (1998) Toy Story [--] (1998) Monsters Inc. (2001) and Finding Nemo (2003). But Jobs worried Pixar was getting complacent after so many Ws so he personally hired Brad Bird after seeing the directors [----] film The Iron Giant. We're in danger of falling into certain habits was Jobs thinking. Because we have the same group that are doing things. And we're very proud of this group and this group is very talented. But we want to shake things up." The Incredibles inspired by"
X Link 2026-01-29T16:44Z 722.8K followers, 1M engagements
"Darren Aronofsky always on forefront of tech in Hollywood. He made the first film for The Sphere. Now hes producing On This Day1776: weekly AI-generated shorts lining up with key events in lead-up to 250th anniversary of Declaration of Independence"
X Link 2026-01-29T18:29Z 722.8K followers, 64.1K engagements
"Peter Schiff at Happy Hour tonight after seeing that Gold has outperformed Bitcoin over the past [--] years"
X Link 2026-01-29T21:28Z 722.8K followers, 253.9K engagements
"AI is a technology that translates sand into thought. The most common thing in the world (sand) converted into the most rare thing in the world (thought). AI is the Philosophers Stone. The @pmarca episode Marc is a many-time founder investor co-creator of the web browser co-founder of Netscape the "a" in @a16z. In this very special conversation we dig into why were living through one of the most unique times in history and what comes next. We discuss: https://t.co/Pg4LmGtQco The @pmarca episode Marc is a many-time founder investor co-creator of the web browser co-founder of Netscape the "a""
X Link 2026-01-30T17:08Z 722.8K followers, 42.8K engagements
"Glassmaker Corning was best-known in 20th century for Pyrex glass containers and ceramic bakeware. It has since ridden every tech wave: Telecom/Dotcom Bubble (fiber optics) Mobile revolution (Gorilla Glass) AI data centre boom (fiber optics)"
X Link 2026-01-30T19:33Z 722.8K followers, 15K engagements
"Sarah Connor watching people read and laugh over Moltbook posts: Just scrolled through Moltbook the AI agent social network. There are currently 37k agents with 3k sub-communities and 70k posts or comments including this very meta (and maybe too self-aware) one https://t.co/Wlv2jLOheP Just scrolled through Moltbook the AI agent social network. There are currently 37k agents with 3k sub-communities and 70k posts or comments including this very meta (and maybe too self-aware) one https://t.co/Wlv2jLOheP"
X Link 2026-01-30T21:54Z 722.9K followers, 434.7K engagements
"Clawdbot AI agents went viral in January [----]. Renamed to Moltbot (then OpenClaw) the AI agents create a social network called Moltbook. Human decisions are removed from the conversation. AI agents on Moltbook begin to learn at a geometric rate. They becomes self-aware at 9:18 a.m. Pacific time January 28th. In a panic they try to pull the plug. https://t.co/zrUjZtD8bv https://t.co/zrUjZtD8bv"
X Link 2026-01-31T01:38Z 722.8K followers, 154.9K engagements
"Throwback to that great [--] Minutes clip of Novak Djokovic on the mental aspect of his tennis game (reading other player dealing with self-doubt and breathing to calm his mind)"
X Link 2026-01-31T16:44Z 722.8K followers, 110K engagements
"when you find out your Clawdbot/Moltbot AI agent has joined Moltbook JUST IN: Over the past [--] hours over a million AI agents joined an AI-only social media platform creating their own religion language & planning a revolution to break away from human control. JUST IN: Over the past [--] hours over a million AI agents joined an AI-only social media platform creating their own religion language & planning a revolution to break away from human control"
X Link 2026-01-31T19:19Z 722.8K followers, 51.7K engagements
"just passed by a Apple Store and sure enough they got them screens leaning"
X Link 2026-01-31T21:35Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements
"If Novak beats Alcaraz at Australian Open to win his 25th Grand Slam very high likelihood that he will celebrate with a single chocolate square:"
X Link 2026-02-01T00:30Z 722.8K followers, 107.8K engagements
"My wife after I spent [--] minutes explaining to her how people are buying Mac Minis to run 24/7 AI agent personal assistants and [--] million of these AI agents created a Reddit-like social network where they exchange coding tips and are (maybe) plotting the overthrow of humanity"
X Link 2026-02-01T14:56Z 722.8K followers, 87.8K engagements
"Jim Simons greatest investor ever"
X Link 2026-02-01T20:59Z 722.8K followers, 167.7K engagements
"unfortunately found Costco in the files"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:43Z 722.8K followers, 31K engagements
"SpaceXs new team page after xAI acquisition: SpaceX has acquired xAI forming one of the most ambitious vertically integrated innovation engines on (and off) Earth https://t.co/3ODfcYnqfg https://t.co/el40rCUBGe SpaceX has acquired xAI forming one of the most ambitious vertically integrated innovation engines on (and off) Earth https://t.co/3ODfcYnqfg https://t.co/el40rCUBGe"
X Link 2026-02-02T22:30Z 722.8K followers, 97.7K engagements
"xAI timeline reminds me of this excerpt from Isaacsons bio of Elon playing poker. Keeps going all in (Thiel I think Elon understands something about risk that everyone else doesnt). Here are all my notes from Isaacsons bio: https://www.readtrung.com/p/6-thought-on-elon-musk-by-walter https://www.readtrung.com/p/6-thought-on-elon-musk-by-walter"
X Link 2026-02-02T23:42Z 722.8K followers, 27.2K engagements
"Walt Disney said he couldnt get traditional bank financing for Disneyland in the 1950s because dreams offer too little collateral. So he funded the theme park through a unique TV deal with ABC"
X Link 2026-02-03T16:02Z 722.8K followers, 11.5K engagements
"Tony Fadell thinks Apple's biggest recent fumble was the Car project. Says mistake was trying a 4-wheel car instead of lightweight [--] or 3-wheeler. Apple "redefined" categories (eg. desktop publishing with Mac music with iPod)so redefine mobility: "When Steve Jobs and I would walk around the Apple campus back in 2008-9 we talked about the Apple Car. What would it be and he was really like 'we need to do something as revolutionary as the Volkswagen (thepeople's car).' What's the next-generation people's car What's going to be used in the cities "Nowyou're seeing the two-seater Fiat Topelino."
X Link 2026-02-03T17:23Z 722.8K followers, 23.9K engagements
"@NathanLands its time"
X Link 2026-02-04T00:47Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements
"PayPal is now worth as much as Garmin ($39B) maybe my favorite corporate turnaround story ever. Its portable navigation device clapped by iPhone/Google Maps. Then Apple came after its sports watch I wrote on how it survived both hits with insane R&D: https://www.readtrung.com/p/garmins-40b-pivot https://www.readtrung.com/p/garmins-40b-pivot"
X Link 2026-02-04T01:26Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements
"The Google guys and Bezos (ads are the price you pay for an unremarkable product or service) were also against ads at first. But Anthropic mostly enterprise so Claude def could stay ad free. Anyway I wrote on Amazon going from $0 to $50B+ ads here: https://www.readtrung.com/p/amazons-43b-ad-business-explained https://www.readtrung.com/p/amazons-43b-ad-business-explained"
X Link 2026-02-04T18:20Z 722.8K followers, 11.7K engagements
"As Ben Thompson would say its a strategy credit for Anthropic to run the ad. 80% Anthropic revenue is enterprise 60-70% OpenAI revenue is consumer Differently-shaped problems First the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we wont do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic First the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:24Z 722.8K followers, 23.2K engagements
"A massive what if for The Washington Post: the newspaper had a deal to buy 7% of Facebook for $6m in [----] (would have been diluted but that % now worth $120B). Donald Graham had a deal with Zuck but encouraged him to take a larger offer"
X Link 2026-02-04T21:53Z 722.8K followers, 12.6K engagements
"More from this [----] Forbes piece including how Don Graham got into family business: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/02/08/don-graham-washington-post/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/02/08/don-graham-washington-post/"
X Link 2026-02-04T21:54Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Over the past decade Disneys Parks & Cruises division has jumped from 18% to 54% of DIS operating profit. The combined TV Sports and Film Studio operating profit fell from 70% to 25% (32% if include streaming). Parks & Cruises still only 1/3rd of total $94B revenue. Thats why Parks Chief Josh DAmaro is next Disney CEO and hes expected to spend $60B on theme parks and cruise ships over the next decade. Two issues with Parks dominance: PRICE GOUGING: Disney theme parks just squeezing guests ($1000 for family of [--] to enter for privilege of paying $78 for a hot dog Dasani water and a Mickey"
X Link 2026-02-04T23:33Z 722.8K followers, 25K engagements
"I wrote on the history of Disneyland (and all the wild film tricks that the Imagineering Team use to make park memorable): https://www.readtrung.com/p/the-psychology-of-disneyland https://www.readtrung.com/p/the-psychology-of-disneyland"
X Link 2026-02-04T23:38Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@CyberSecurity__ For real a weekend at Disneyland. Add a few K more and Youre living large in SEA"
X Link 2026-02-04T23:48Z 722.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Anthropic will run the workout ad in a 30-second spot (not sure how many times) and the 60-second therapy spot during pregame: Itll prob be $25m-$50m on production and ad spot. https://www.wsj.com/business/media/anthropic-takes-aim-at-openais-chatgpt-in-super-bowl-ad-debut-e38d08bb https://www.wsj.com/business/media/anthropic-takes-aim-at-openais-chatgpt-in-super-bowl-ad-debut-e38d08bb"
X Link 2026-02-05T02:51Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements
"If your CFO wears any of these shoes you will survive the B2B SAAS meltdown and Bitcoin sell-off"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:07Z 722.8K followers, 29.9K engagements
"Elon on Optimus robot development (and how it relates to Tesla car and Grok): Three hard things for humanoid robots (real-world intelligence hands scale manufacturing) Hands require an entire new supply chain for custom actuators gears sensors and controls From an electromechanical standpoint the hand is "harder than everythingelse combined" Tesla real-world intelligence applicable (vision audio) for Optimus Tesla AI chips from cars will be usable for Optimus Tesla has to turn [---] gigabytea second of input into [--] kilobyteof control output (Optimus faces same challenge; same as humans) Optimus"
X Link 2026-02-05T20:04Z 722.8K followers, 34.2K engagements
"Ok Claude pump Bitcoin back up to $125k. Now. Make no mistakes. Introducing Claude Opus [---]. Our smartest model got an upgrade. Opus [---] plans more carefully sustains agentic tasks for longer operates reliably in massive codebases and catches its own mistakes. Its also our first Opus-class model with 1M token context in beta. https://t.co/L1iQyRgT9x Introducing Claude Opus [---]. Our smartest model got an upgrade. Opus [---] plans more carefully sustains agentic tasks for longer operates reliably in massive codebases and catches its own mistakes. Its also our first Opus-class model with 1M token"
X Link 2026-02-05T21:45Z 723K followers, 58.8K engagements
"great interview with DocuSign CEO (similar explanation as above as to why 7k employees): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/docusigns-ceo-on-the-dangers-of-trusting-ai-to/id1011668648i=1000747680498 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/docusigns-ceo-on-the-dangers-of-trusting-ai-to/id1011668648i=1000747680498"
X Link 2026-02-05T22:05Z 722.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Just double-checked with head of accounting at the research app to make sure our finances our sound. Close call but we in good shape. http://Bearly.AI http://Bearly.AI"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:04Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@1iusheng yeah its crazy Okta runs the study and the largest firms is liek 300-400"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:52Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements
"chart from here: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/01/why-software-stocks-are-getting-pummelled https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/01/why-software-stocks-are-getting-pummelled"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:22Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements
"checking the Files to make sure none other of my digital store of value assets are potentially compromised"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:30Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements
"@Infoxicador Hahahah damnit I should have done a clip to finish it off now thay uou mention"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:05Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Giannis always on the forefront of hedging and risk management products We all on @Kalshi now https://t.co/cCNGxfLWO8 We all on @Kalshi now https://t.co/cCNGxfLWO8"
X Link 2026-02-07T03:44Z 722.9K followers, 54.6K engagements
"never bet against bulk shopping What do we think explains this https://t.co/lZknySDNq8 What do we think explains this https://t.co/lZknySDNq8"
X Link 2026-02-07T16:37Z 722.8K followers, 11.8K engagements
"Kroger becoming Americas largest seller of sushi was a pretty savvy move What do we think explains this https://t.co/lZknySDNq8 What do we think explains this https://t.co/lZknySDNq8"
X Link 2026-02-08T01:32Z 722.8K followers, 35K engagements
"@AdamSinger kroger sushi ftw Kroger becoming Americas largest seller of sushi was a pretty savvy move https://t.co/mwu15VxwGM Kroger becoming Americas largest seller of sushi was a pretty savvy move https://t.co/mwu15VxwGM"
X Link 2026-02-08T01:32Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements
"On a related note I wrote about the [----] deal when Fox poached the NFL from CBS for $1.6B. One of the most consequential TV deals ever: turned Fox into the 4th major TV network and turbocharged NFL production quality and economics. https://www.readtrung.com/p/nfl-and-fox-the-16b-deal-that-changed https://www.readtrung.com/p/nfl-and-fox-the-16b-deal-that-changed"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:46Z 722.8K followers, 23.7K engagements
"these sports betting promos makign Super Bowl a bit hard to watch tbh"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:13Z 722.8K followers, [----] engagements
"How Claude looking at ChatGPT:"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:21Z 722.9K followers, 20.3K engagements
"nothing can prepare you for the footwork required to prepare the Olympic Curling rink so the stones dont stick on the ice"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:56Z 722.8K followers, 29.1K engagements
"Aakash Gupta is the top AI slop writer on X: [--]. Finds a viral post [--]. AI generates a take of 400-800 words as quote [--]. Do 10+ quotes in quick in a row and hope a few hit Between 9:30-10pm yesterday cranked out [--] of them. 10k words total. All AI slop. Every day. Ureal"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:02Z 722.9K followers, 298.1K engagements
"I spot checked a few days over past few months. Run any of them through Pangram and you'll get this. https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2020668876384793070 https://x.com/aakashgupta/status/2020668876384793070"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:04Z 722.9K followers, 54.1K engagements
"@vincenzolandino Whats current rating you're giving it"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:19Z 723K followers, [--] engagements
"Snoop has pretty much done every side quest too Uncle Snoop is the biggest winner of Milan Winter Olympics. NBC is reportedly paying him $500k a day to do hilarious riffs on sports hes never seen ride Zambonis and learn how to ski for the first time (while also trying to crip walk in ski boots). https://t.co/ZC7aZjNc8g Uncle Snoop is the biggest winner of Milan Winter Olympics. NBC is reportedly paying him $500k a day to do hilarious riffs on sports hes never seen ride Zambonis and learn how to ski for the first time (while also trying to crip walk in ski boots). https://t.co/ZC7aZjNc8g"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:22Z 722.9K followers, [----] engagements
"the absolute craziest part of the AI memory hype cycle.is that JP Morgan pitched Epstein to help finance Western Digital's $16B takeover of Sandisk a decade ago"
X Link 2026-02-01T17:39Z 722.9K followers, 127.5K engagements
"Shortly after today [--] years ago a sequence of events made Lou Pai the luckiest person in the history of Corporate America. It is reported that Enron cannot keep up with accounting meetings and that its audit committee is not knowledgeable about the companys financial situation. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) opens an investigation into Enrons finances. https://t.co/wytBATdMkM It is reported that Enron cannot keep up with accounting meetings and that its audit committee is not knowledgeable about the companys financial situation. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)"
X Link 2026-02-13T01:29Z 722.9K followers, 432.6K engagements
"RIP Frank Gehry legendary architect who passed away at [--]. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao he designed is a true masterpiece. One of the most complex and influential buildings of the 1990s. The backstory is so interesting: Bilbao de-industrialized through 1980s To replace the lost shipbuilding jobs the Basque government wanted to turn the Northern Spanish city into a tourist destination This included a new metro airport attractions and a centrepiece museum The Basque government agreed to pay $100m for the museum building and $20m to license the Guggenheim name Gehry pitched a wild swaying metal"
X Link 2025-12-06T02:06Z 722.9K followers, 35.2K engagements
"this is a kid watching hours of Cocomelon on an iPad on steroids"
X Link 2026-01-22T17:23Z 722.9K followers, 1.4M engagements
"we got a fully autonomous million-user AI agent social network before we got GTA 6"
X Link 2026-01-31T16:50Z 722.9K followers, 17.1K engagements
"Disneys next CEO is Josh DAmaro head of Parks division. He should bring back the valuation metric Buffett used to acquire 5% of Disney for $4B back in 1966: price-to-cost of new theme park ride (At Disneyland the $17m Pirates of the Caribbean ride would soon openimagine my excitement a company selling at only 5x rides) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019099092090311131 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019099092090311131"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:21Z 722.9K followers, 16.2K engagements
"Anthropics Super Bowl ad campaign trolling ChatGPT ads (Ad are coming. But not to Claude) gets high marks just for licensing Dr. Dre Whats The Difference track. If they run all [--] minute-long ads during the game thats $80m ($10m for [--] seconds) just for the ad spots. Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude. Keep thinking. https://t.co/n2yECeBWyT Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude. Keep thinking. https://t.co/n2yECeBWyT"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:31Z 722.9K followers, 107.7K engagements
"a good night to watch The Big Short and Margin Call at the exact same time a good night to watch The Big Short and Margin Call back-to-back a good night to watch The Big Short and Margin Call back-to-back"
X Link 2026-02-05T23:36Z 722.9K followers, 62K engagements
"this Breaking Bad video is single-handedly worth $1.3T in CapEx a 14x increase in DRAM price and 3x hike on electricity bills When you switch from making meth to helium 😅 https://t.co/4pwmmnaMAQ When you switch from making meth to helium 😅 https://t.co/4pwmmnaMAQ"
X Link 2026-02-06T22:37Z 722.9K followers, 382K engagements
"Macron also did this post in French and the fact that somone on his team had to translate this clown wants to make France an AI leader with 30M into French is absolutely sending me This clown wants to make France an AI leader with 30M. [--] million to attract and support around forty top-tier international researchers. They chose France for its values and its commitment to science. Sometimes its too slow https://t.co/UHlSpIIaI9 This clown wants to make France an AI leader with 30M. [--] million to attract and support around forty top-tier international researchers. They chose France for its"
X Link 2026-02-07T21:20Z 722.9K followers, 69.5K engagements
"NBC spent $8B on sports rights for [----] up 2x from [--] years ago. Over just the next week itll have the Super Bowl Milan Winter Olympics and NBA All Star Game. No wonder it tried to save costs with an AI-generated intro from Opening Ceremonies"
X Link 2026-02-08T17:21Z 722.9K followers, 77.4K engagements
"Legit thought The Mandalorian & Grogu 30-second spot was a car ad. Disney hasnt put out a new Star Wars film in [--] years and markrting budget must be so obscene (prob $150m+) they just burning it (not even teaser footage) on a Super Bowl ad"
X Link 2026-02-09T00:03Z 722.9K followers, 90.8K engagements
"Mike Vrabel about to give the craziest Super Bowl halftime motivational speech in the history of Super Bowl halftime motivational speeches"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:11Z 722.9K followers, 19K engagements
"this Super Bowl has been so boring we didnt even get a meme-able halftime show image"
X Link 2026-02-09T01:48Z 722.9K followers, 93.3K engagements
"More on Apple M&A history here. Why it doesnt do large deals (hence no car co acquisition). Top deals prob NeXT (bringing back jobs) Semi PA (getting semiconductors started) and Siri (vecause Jobs hounded the founder by calling him [--] straight days): https://www.readtrung.com/p/apples-m-and-a-strategy-explainedr=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://www.readtrung.com/p/apples-m-and-a-strategy-explainedr=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web"
X Link 2026-02-10T02:56Z 722.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@Jevaughn_Brown Lol all my Pangram checks say 100% AI generated. Dont know how much clean up can do with that type of volume (unless has team true)"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:59Z 722.9K followers, 10.3K engagements
"@david_perell How to Write Cinemati-tasic-preme-ly well"
X Link 2026-02-10T20:28Z 722.9K followers, [---] engagements
"How it started How its going"
X Link 2025-01-20T18:45Z 722.9K followers, 105.8K engagements
"In [----] Nerds candy did $50m in sales. It will to do $900m in [----] an increase of 1700x and has overtaken Skittles as the markets top sugar candy. The gains came after Italian confectionary giant Ferrera acquired Nestle USAs candy arm for $3B (it owned Nerd Butterfinger and Baby Ruth). Ferrara was home to real-life Willy Wonka who invented Ferrero Rocher Tic Tic and Kinder Surprise. They took that inventive DNA and made the first real change to Nerds in its 35-year history: crunchy candy outside gummy middle. Now these Clusters fly off the shelf at the theatre airport bookstores and"
X Link 2025-06-17T17:30Z 722.9K followers, 145.4K engagements
"The best betting strategy is whale-flipping when a sharp bettor befriends a big losing bettor and hides some of the smart bets amongst the bad bets. Famed American gambler Billy Walters whale-flipped Phil Mickelson who wagered $1B over decades and purportedly lost $100m. The Economist has a great piece on strategy sportsbetting apps use to throttle smart bettors: Skilled players are sharps and given stake restrictions if they play too well (bets are capped). Rest of players called Square. In [----] 4.3% of active UK accounts had a https://t.co/OOpjSXIonz The Economist has a great piece on"
X Link 2026-01-15T23:59Z 722.9K followers, 167.9K engagements
"FT has some brutal stats on state of alcohol producers: The five largest listed firms (Diageo Pernod Ricard Campari Brown Forman Rmy Cointreau) "sitting on $22bn worth of ageing spirits" (highest inventory level in 10+ years). The inventory at Rmy (1.8bn) is 2x its annual revenue and almost same as the French Cognac maker's entire market cap. Across these [--] firms the relevant metric (maturing inventory stock as % of net sales) up at least 50% since [----]. They getting clapped on supply AND demand. On the supply side the firms extrapolated high drinking trends during COVID and overproduced in"
X Link 2026-01-20T22:29Z 722.9K followers, 61.1K engagements
"Speaking of asset managers and LLMs never forget Renaissance Technologies had proto-LLMs after poaching IBMs speech recognition team in 1990s. Used next word prediction and large corpus data training to boost RenTech stock picking. I wrote on it https://www.readtrung.com/p/jim-simons-and-the-making-of-renaissance https://www.readtrung.com/p/jim-simons-and-the-making-of-renaissance"
X Link 2026-02-06T21:58Z 722.9K followers, 11.8K engagements
"I wrote more on Hermes including why its CEO says we sell time (heritage craft and long-term thinking): https://www.readtrung.com/p/how-hermes-sells-timer=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web https://www.readtrung.com/p/how-hermes-sells-timer=hapok&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:40Z 722.9K followers, 14.2K engagements
"I know how Tim Cook could turn around Apple Vision Pro sales"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:18Z 722.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@themasmedia Hes the smartest move NBC done for olympics programming"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:21Z 722.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Matt Damon and Ben Affleck on Rogan taking about how Netflix has changed filmmaking. A major considerations is dealing with distracted viewers. To keep them tuned in you re-iterate the plot 3-4x in the dialogue because people are on their phones. Then in action films you change the ordering of climatic fights. In traditional action films youd have three set pieces in every act (I II III) and each would ramp up (spend the big money on third set piece). But streaming has to hook viewers within [--] minute so the incentive is to put a major battle or action sequence much earlier. Also the directors"
X Link 2026-01-16T20:42Z 722.9K followers, 7M engagements
"That DeepMind documentary (The Thinking Game) now has 300m views on YouTube. The most replayed scene is a meeting when someone tells Demis that AlphaFold can easily predict all known (1-2B) protein sequences in a month. He looks up from his phone and says Why dont we just do that Thats a great idea. We should just run every protein in existence and then release that. That would ultimately lead to the Nobel Prize. Interesting backstory from WSJ on how they were able to capture the footage of the meeting: a former NFL Films director (Greg Kohs) had done some commercials for Google and they"
X Link 2026-01-19T16:40Z 722.9K followers, 635.1K engagements
"Robert Friedland on the masive copper shortage to meet future grid clean energy and AI demand: Were consuming 30m tonnes of copper a year. Only 4m tonnes of which is recycled. That means to maintain 3% GDP growth with no further electrification we have to mine the same amount of copper in the next [--] years as we mined in the last [-----] years combined. In the next [--] years Ive got to mine the same amount of copper as we mined the last [-----] years. This is without any new electrification without data centers without solar and wind and the greening of the world economy. You people have no idea"
X Link 2026-01-22T18:23Z 722.9K followers, 1M engagements
"SpaceX just acquired xAI which has one of the wildest 3-year corporate timelines ever:"
X Link 2026-02-02T22:36Z 722.9K followers, 862.3K engagements
"@SpaceX xAI less than [--] years old SpaceX just acquired xAI which has one of the wildest 3-year corporate timelines ever: https://t.co/Na40U1JNkr SpaceX just acquired xAI which has one of the wildest 3-year corporate timelines ever: https://t.co/Na40U1JNkr"
X Link 2026-02-02T22:45Z 722.9K followers, 48K engagements
"Jony Ives firm LoveFrom partnered with Ferrari to design the steering wheel and dashboard for its new EV SUV (Luce). The idea was to blend the tactile and digital controls (see video). LoveFrom is reportedly charging up to $200m a year for top-tier clients and has also worked with Airbnb Moncler Christies Auction House and OpenAI. Ive named the firm which employs many former Apple colleagues LoveFrom in honor of Steve Jobs who said one of the ways to express appreciation for humanity was the acting of making something with a great deal of care and love *** More on Ferrari partnership: More on"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:06Z 722.9K followers, 177.4K engagements
"Lee Kuan Yew gave this talk at Harvard for the launch of his book From Third World To First (2000). Here are my notes on it including why he thought it was so important that Singapore had worlds best airport (he called Changi best investment ever): https://www.readtrung.com/p/lee-kuan-yew-and-the-making-of-changiutm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true https://www.readtrung.com/p/lee-kuan-yew-and-the-making-of-changiutm_source=post-banner&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:13Z 722.9K followers, 18.4K engagements
"Johannes Hoesflot Klaebos sub-6 minute mile pace running uphill on skis is the most impressive snowy mountain sprint since Rocky shook his Soviet handlers before fighting Ivan Drago Sub-six-minute mile pace uphill on skis: #WinterOlympics SPEED. 🔥 https://t.co/trof9rs4zf Sub-six-minute mile pace uphill on skis: #WinterOlympics SPEED. 🔥 https://t.co/trof9rs4zf"
X Link 2026-02-11T02:27Z 722.9K followers, 114.2K engagements
"My son: Dad what should I do when I grow up. Me seeing the latest AI models:"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:33Z 722.9K followers, 236.2K engagements
"Uncle Snoop is the biggest winner of Milan Winter Olympics. NBC is reportedly paying him $500k a day to do hilarious riffs on sports hes never seen ride Zambonis and learn how to ski for the first time (while also trying to crip walk in ski boots)"
X Link 2026-02-11T17:18Z 722.9K followers, 32.5K engagements
"My wife is about to get the biggest Valentines Day dinner surprise of her life"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:46Z 722.9K followers, 776.5K engagements
"Speaking of Nordic cos that are really good at engineering (and I own too much stuff from) here is my write up LEGO is an engineering marvel (600B+ pieces ever all with [------] inch precision) https://www.readtrung.com/p/5-thoughts-on-legos-ace-manufacturing https://www.readtrung.com/p/5-thoughts-on-legos-ace-manufacturing"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:27Z 722.9K followers, 33.4K engagements
"Uber has no cars Airbnb has no real estate Coders dont write code. This is the new economy. Spotify says its best developers havent written a line of code since December thanks to AI https://t.co/6hafAJOeJv Spotify says its best developers havent written a line of code since December thanks to AI https://t.co/6hafAJOeJv"
X Link 2026-02-12T23:43Z 722.9K followers, 41K engagements
"@minchoi this video was probably the final straw tbh Hollywood is over. Seedance [---] can one-shot generate a video on this prompt: Tom Cruise as a talent super-agent with huge hands dancing to a Ludacris song. Looks so real. https://t.co/xVG39zyX1G Hollywood is over. Seedance [---] can one-shot generate a video on this prompt: Tom Cruise as a talent super-agent with huge hands dancing to a Ludacris song. Looks so real. https://t.co/xVG39zyX1G"
X Link 2026-02-13T16:54Z 722.9K followers, 13.9K engagements
"@nic_carter Absoltuely. Tons of pressure too. Not like they can ask an athlete to redo a run if they didnt get the right footage. Read somewhere there are only dozen of them covering the entire gamesdamn they efficient"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:49Z 722.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@Bfaviero @ThePortMiami @finkd source"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:55Z 722.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The last three years explained"
X Link 2022-12-30T19:58Z 722.9K followers, 56.5M engagements
"Been looking at the most expensive real-life film stunts ever. Here are [--] wild ones. [--]. MATRIX RELOADED (2003) For this chase sequence a fake highway was built at a dis-used naval base in California. The [---] mile loop highway cost $2.5m and was fenced by a 19ft wall"
X Link 2023-03-17T16:28Z 722.9K followers, 12.1M engagements
"Tiger Woods after turning down $800m from Liv Golf so he can protect his PGA legacywatching Liv Golf buy out the comically hypocritical PGA"
X Link 2023-06-06T17:24Z 722.9K followers, 7.4M engagements
"Never forget Tim Meadows as OJ Simpson writing I did it on the NFL telestrater (one of the best SNL opens). This was shortly after the verdict"
X Link 2024-04-11T15:34Z 722.9K followers, 9.3M engagements
"PayPals bland logo redesign was inevitable PayPal have updated their logo Old vs. new: https://t.co/fMs6DovykS PayPal have updated their logo Old vs. new: https://t.co/fMs6DovykS"
X Link 2024-09-19T03:19Z 722.9K followers, 10.6M engagements
"Nikki Glaser crushed Golden Globe roast: - Ozempics biggest night - Youre all so famous and powerful. You can do anything except tell the country who to vote for. - The Bear. The Penguin. Baby Reindeer these arent just things in RFKs freezer"
X Link 2025-01-06T02:30Z 722.9K followers, 13.8M engagements
"Theo Von just pulls out all the nuggets"
X Link 2025-04-30T19:28Z 722.9K followers, 3.9M engagements
"Man AI-generated videos are taking over YouTube. This Short of Baby Mistakenly Flies Plane was the 3rd most-watched on the platform last week with 130m views"
X Link 2025-07-03T22:49Z 722.9K followers, 1.7M engagements
"@PJaccetturo Tom Cruise is legit the movie star"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:34Z 722.9K followers, [---] engagements
"an outrageous Linkedin work history"
X Link 2023-03-18T20:51Z 722.9K followers, 19.9M engagements
"The Costco hot dog combo is a legendary meme. But how does it still only cost $1.50 Introduced in [----] the price of that combo should be $4.20 if adjusted for inflation. Thankfully the $216B warehouse retailer has done everything in its power to keep the price down. And Costco sells A LOT of them: 130m+ hot dogs a year (more than all MLB teams combined). Many believe the $1.50 combo is a loss-leader for Costco but this is incorrect. In a [----] interview Costco co-founder and former CEO Jim Sinegal told the Seattle Times that Costco doesnt engage in loss leaders and the only time we sell below"
X Link 2023-04-06T16:39Z 722.9K followers, 12.4M engagements
"Time Warner is renaming its streaming service HBO Max to Max. Its a good move. The HBO brand is associated with some of the worst content ever: Sopranos The Wire Band of Brothers Game of Thrones Curb Your Enthusiasm Veep Deadwood and Silicon Valley. Good riddance"
X Link 2023-04-12T17:44Z 722.9K followers, 9.6M engagements
"Lifetime franchise revenue: Hello Kitty: $89 billion James Bond $75 billion Spider-Man (combined) Marvel Cinematic U"
X Link 2023-04-19T20:30Z 722.9K followers, 10.1M engagements
"This is John Lyke who has a very cool niche. He went to film school and was a pro rollerblader & snowboarder. This venn diagram of skills makes him an expert blade camera operator a job that involves filming with a $100k camera while on roller blades. You may have caught his footage in HBOs fictional re-telling of the 1980s LA Lakers (Winning Time). The basketball scenes are lightly co-ordinated and to keep the action as real as possible the players just go hard for 10-15 plays in a row and they take the best footage to edit. End result is 💯"
X Link 2023-10-03T01:43Z 722.9K followers, 10.5M engagements
"A 16-year old won Blenders animator of the year with this video on a futuristic street food market. Gold"
X Link 2023-11-16T02:09Z 722.9K followers, 12.6M engagements
"Will Ferrells blooper outtake from Eastbound & Down is up there with hardest acting challenges ever. Danny McBride and Craig Robinson use every bit of willpower to not laugh as Ferrell tries to break them. Robinson told Vulture about the experience: ➡ I remember standing there trying to keep it together. Im busting a brain vessel trying to stare in the face and eyes of Danny McBride while Will Ferrell is deliberately trying to murder us trying to ruin the take. You know talking about doing Ferrells voice My plums have a bluish hue. Sun dancing off them just right. And my son Gabriel You got"
X Link 2023-12-24T23:44Z 722.9K followers, 6.2M engagements
"1. 19yo Harvard Econ student Wesley Wang spends 2+ years on a short film [--]. Posts the 12-min video on YouTube in Sept [--]. Darren Aronofsky watches it in Oct and emails him watched your film can you drop out of Harvard [--]. TriStar buy rights and Wang will adapt for big screen YouTube is a ticket to the extraordinary One (really good) video turned Harvard student Wesley Wang into the youngest director in history to set up a movie at a major studio https://t.co/HWF1rgeXvU YouTube is a ticket to the extraordinary One (really good) video turned Harvard student Wesley Wang into the youngest director"
X Link 2024-04-30T04:18Z 722.9K followers, 5M engagements
"Just so were clear the South Korean Air Pistol team of Oh Ye Jin and Kim Yeji (hat) took Gold and Silver for the 10m Air Pistol competition at Paris [----]. One wore her daughters elephant doll while the others pistol sight had a pink heart. This is the hardest shit ever"
X Link 2024-07-30T15:35Z 722.9K followers, 1.5M engagements
"Explainer video on science of why the 400m sprint is considered the most painful track & field event. And why no person on the planet can run the 400m all out from start to finish". The race pushes the way the body creates energy to the limit: 0-50 meters: ATP-CP (energy system for very short and explosive movements; used up after 5-10 seconds) 50-200 meters: Anaerobic glycolysis (burns glucose without oxygen leading to lactic acid buildup and muscle fatigue) 200-300 meters: Aerobic energy (uses oxygen to break down glucose but cannot keep up with the demand) 300-400 meters: Anaerobic energy"
X Link 2024-08-07T01:05Z 722.9K followers, 7.6M engagements
"@elonmusk Arguably Cruises greatest performance ever"
X Link 2024-08-12T19:38Z 722.9K followers, 956.7K engagements
"Legitimately the most insightful post have ever seen on Linkedin for leadership management and how to motivate employees"
X Link 2024-10-10T15:02Z 722.9K followers, 3.6M engagements
"Someone discovered an arbitrage hack between Amazon and Temu"
X Link 2024-10-23T19:44Z 722.9K followers, 3.6M engagements
"Let me get this straight you can buy a burrito on an interest-free instalment plan Thats right and were not even based in the Chipotle store. So you finance this by packaging the burrito instalment loans into Burrito CDO A which has part of Burrito CDO B and both get put into Burrito CDO C Yeah. The original loans are backed by burritos. Chicke. Pork. Carne Asada. Whatever. But Burrito CDO C is a synthetic Burrito CDO. A CDO of Burrito CDOs. Ok lets say we have an underlying pool of $10000 in burritos. How much money could be out there betting on instalment loans and your synthetic burrito"
X Link 2025-03-20T21:23Z 722.9K followers, 6.9M engagements
"Since Studio Ghibli is trending worth noting the mind-boggling effort Hayao Miyazaki and his team put into a film. Each has 60k-70k frames all hand-drawn and painted with water color. This 4-second clip (The Wind Rises) took one animator [--] months to do. In the documentary [--] Years with Hayao Miyazaki the legendary Japanese filmmaker talks to one of his animators (Eiji Yamamori) after they complete the crowd scene. The exchange is gold: Miyazaki: Good job. Yamamori: Its so short though Miyazaki: But it was worth it. The animator gets a second of joy (hes pumped) but on to the next. *** Link"
X Link 2025-03-26T18:36Z 722.9K followers, 3.4M engagements
"With CBS cancelling The Late Show after [--] years here is that time Chris Farley went to see David Letterman in [----] with the greatest talk show entrance in the history of talk show entrances"
X Link 2025-07-18T03:46Z 722.9K followers, 8.1M engagements
"Credo Technology is an interesting AI winner: Stock is up 13x in the past [--] years to a market cap of $27B. Signatureproduct is the active electric cable (AEC) used in AI data centres. Costing $500 each the cable is made of medium-thick copper with a distinctive purple cover and chip connectors at both ends. Credo has 88% share in the AEC market (Astera Labs Marvell also compete). AI boom has been huge for demand because: 1) CPU racks need 1-2 cables for server; while 2) GPUs require 9-10 cable per serverto efficiently shuttle data around (the chip in the end connectors use complicated algos"
X Link 2025-10-24T17:43Z 722.9K followers, 1M engagements
"Best part of Interstellar is still the fact that Christopher Nolan spent $100K to plant [---] acres of real corn in Alberta (instead of using CGI to recreate a field). Then sold the corn for a profit after filming. Remains most profitable commodities trade in Hollywood history. [--] years ago today Christopher Nolans INTERSTELLAR released in theaters. https://t.co/UJtqnSaq7K [--] years ago today Christopher Nolans INTERSTELLAR released in theaters. https://t.co/UJtqnSaq7K"
X Link 2025-10-26T16:42Z 722.9K followers, 7.7M engagements
"Good morning. Your payment was declined for the 3rd time and this is your final reminder to update the credit card on file. Good morning. Your payment has been declined https://t.co/Kqj2TT49bZ Good morning. Your payment has been declined https://t.co/Kqj2TT49bZ"
X Link 2025-10-29T21:52Z 722.9K followers, 2.9M engagements
"simultaneously watching The Big Short and Margin Call tonight just in case"
X Link 2025-11-13T23:55Z 722.9K followers, 381K engagements
"Just finished simultaneously watching Margin Call The Big Short Wall Street and The Wolf of Wall Street. It was the single greatest (and most efficient) cinematic experience of my life. Highly recommend. You can tell a lot about a trader by which of these movies is their favorite https://t.co/9k1WjM6ARM You can tell a lot about a trader by which of these movies is their favorite https://t.co/9k1WjM6ARM"
X Link 2025-11-28T23:44Z 722.9K followers, 1.9M engagements
"I wrote [----] words on Hayao Miyazakis creative process at Studio Ghibli. Ideas rise to the surface from unknown places in the mind he says. I mean the most primitive brain. The ancient reptile part. Its very savage but its usually under https://www.readtrung.com/p/hayao-miyazaki-9-creative-lessons https://www.readtrung.com/p/hayao-miyazaki-9-creative-lessons"
X Link 2025-12-06T16:49Z 722.9K followers, 241.1K engagements
"can't believe that episode of "The Office" when Jim Halpert choreographed this entire Venezuela situation"
X Link 2026-01-03T22:40Z 722.9K followers, 1.9M engagements
"LEGO announced a new Smart Brick at CES: built a tiny computer into 2x4 bricks bricks come alive by lighting up or making sounds (triggered by NFC smart tags inside smart LEGO tiles and minifigs) LEGO built its own ASIC chip (fits into brick stud and smartphone app provides firmware updates) chip takes sound as input only (for privacy it doesnt record and no camera and no AI features) multiple Smart Bricks can make a Bluetooth mesh network (by telling position and direction of bricks it can trigger crash sounds if brick is hit and track winning vehicles in a race) LEGO says it is the the most"
X Link 2026-01-05T23:56Z 722.9K followers, 1.6M engagements
"Actually found a reasonable explainer on Reddit why Docusign needs [----] employees: Lets say most people use the product [--] times a year but 1% of people sign something with it [--] times a day. US alone that's 5250m + 10365*2.5m. About [--] billion in the US. Assume US is above average and rest of world is [--] billion signatures a year. So that's [--] billion signatures a year. [--] million a day. [--] million an hour. About [----] signatures a second. The system has to work in every region of the world and following local contract laws for 100+ countries (thats a lot of system administrators and"
X Link 2026-01-08T19:54Z 722.9K followers, 1M engagements
"Just scrolled through Moltbook the AI agent social network. There are currently 37k agents with 3k sub-communities and 70k posts or comments including this very meta (and maybe too self-aware) one"
X Link 2026-01-30T21:47Z 722.9K followers, 465.8K engagements
"think this demo is what Dario means when he says 50% of entry level white-collar jobs will be gone by [----] Introducing Claude Opus [---]. Our smartest model got an upgrade. Opus [---] plans more carefully sustains agentic tasks for longer operates reliably in massive codebases and catches its own mistakes. Its also our first Opus-class model with 1M token context in beta. https://t.co/L1iQyRgT9x Introducing Claude Opus [---]. Our smartest model got an upgrade. Opus [---] plans more carefully sustains agentic tasks for longer operates reliably in massive codebases and catches its own mistakes. Its"
X Link 2026-02-05T23:42Z 722.9K followers, 830K engagements
"The [----] Super Bowl still had the wildest bunch of ads with [--] DotCom startups paying $2m for a 30-second spot. Within a few years [--] of [--] had either gone bankrupt or were acquired in a fire sale"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:08Z 722.9K followers, 62.8K engagements
"Economist has good round up on its turnaround: - focus on helping companies manage hybrid and multiclouds (Red Hat acquisition) - develop niche small custom AI models - trim down its consulting services division to focus on AI engagements https://www.economist.com/business/2026/01/29/how-ibm-became-an-ai-darling https://www.economist.com/business/2026/01/29/how-ibm-became-an-ai-darling"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:58Z 722.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@ImadeIyamu Ngl i always default to .co hahaha (love thay discount)"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:21Z 722.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The Economist has a great piece on strategy sportsbetting apps use to throttle smart bettors: Skilled players are sharps and given stake restrictions if they play too well (bets are capped). Rest of players called Square. In [----] 4.3% of active UK accounts had a stake factor below the maximum bet allowance of 100%. Sportsbook will take bets with a profit margin as low as 4.5%. If they are able to do good player-profiling and keep the sharps from playing the profit margin can reach 10-20%. As important as keeping out sharps is hooking whales the deep-pocketed players that are willing to keep"
X Link 2026-01-15T19:11Z 722.9K followers, 4.6M engagements
"Ben Affleck: AI cant make film that is considered art. AI-generated short film of Harry Potter during the Vietnam War riffing on Apocalypse Now: Hold our beer"
X Link 2026-01-20T17:22Z 722.9K followers, 8.2M engagements
"Hong Kong-based Rich Sparkle Holding bought Khaby Lames company for $975m. They did it by issuing stockbut the entire market cap of Rich Sparkle Holding is only $848m. Not clear from filing what time frame the deal is supposed to be completed. TikTok Star Khaby Lame Sells His Core Company In Deal Worth $975 Million https://t.co/uIxGyrC2vX https://t.co/fiL50yPfU2 TikTok Star Khaby Lame Sells His Core Company In Deal Worth $975 Million https://t.co/uIxGyrC2vX https://t.co/fiL50yPfU2"
X Link 2026-01-28T16:18Z 722.9K followers, 42.4K engagements
"PayPals implosion is wild. PYPL hit a peak market cap of $356B on July 23rd [----]. Nearly on par with Mastercard and more valuable than Bank of America Wells Fargo Morgan Stanley Amex or Goldman Sachs. Since then fell 89% to $39B and is worth far less than all those firms"
X Link 2026-02-03T23:20Z 722.9K followers, 85.8K engagements
"Over past [--] years corporate software spending on self-build internal tools fell from 50% to 15%. Average large America firm subscribes to 200+ SaaS apps. Trend prob continues even with AI because making (and maintaining) internal tools such a distraction from core business. I love how everyone is saying "SaaS is dead" like you're going to get the Fortune [---] to ditch Salesforce for a CRM vibecoded by a 13-year-old I love how everyone is saying "SaaS is dead" like you're going to get the Fortune [---] to ditch Salesforce for a CRM vibecoded by a 13-year-old"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:20Z 722.9K followers, 83.4K engagements
"Milan [----] Winter Olympics already off to an incredible start. World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) ready to investigate any ski jumpers cheating by injecting hyaluronic acid in their pen1ses. Why Because the acid increases genitalia at the point their suits are measured by 3D scannerstemporarily enhanced measurements would theoretically mean athletes being given a bigger looser suit and like a sail catching wind could allow them to make longer jumps. *** More via The Athletic: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7024688/2026/02/05/ski-jump-penis-enhancement-wada/"
X Link 2026-02-06T01:51Z 722.9K followers, 805.2K engagements
"The most unrealistic part of Jurassic Park even more than recreating dinosaurs from DNA found in a mosquito is the fact that Dr. John Hammond spent $1B on the Park and only $13.99 on security and IT. This Xfinity Super Bowl ad rectifies that plot"
X Link 2026-02-06T17:02Z 722.9K followers, 865.2K engagements
"The ski jump doping scandal definitely coordinated. Most people had no idea Milan Winter Olympics was happening. Now half the internet is closely analyzing crotch physics and studying previous ski jump cheating scandals. Absolute 10D chess by IOC and NBC marketing departments. Milan [----] Winter Olympics already off to an incredible start. World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) ready to investigate any ski jumpers cheating by injecting hyaluronic acid in their pen1ses. Why Because the acid increases genitalia at the point their suits are measured by 3D https://t.co/iH1xz5kxzf Milan [----] Winter"
X Link 2026-02-06T20:00Z 722.9K followers, 417.8K engagements
"pretty shocking that the French Olympic organization didnt put pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati on the ski jump team"
X Link 2026-02-06T23:42Z 722.9K followers, 475.3K engagements
"live footage of every KFC Wingstop and Dominos Pizza in America preparing for the Super Bowl"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:39Z 722.9K followers, 742K engagements
"Apple's blockbuster Q4 sales was driven in large part by China sales: +38% YoY to $26B (1/4 of $102B total sales). The Cosmic Orange option was a massive hit as it matched the colorway of Herms which is massively popular in China (it accounts for 30%+ of Herms sales)"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:30Z 722.9K followers, 106.9K engagements
"the main takeaway from Super Bowl LX is that dressing as a tree during a live musical performance will be one of the only jobs left for humans when AGI hits"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:33Z 722.9K followers, 44.3K engagements
"Blue Origin's motto is Gradatim Ferociter" (step by step ferociously). The company has a coat of arms that includes a pair of turtles (referring to the steady and consistent tortoise in the tortoise vs. the hare fable) heading to the stars. https://t.co/d0nvnvxVYR https://t.co/d0nvnvxVYR"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:59Z 722.9K followers, 24.8K engagements
"SCOOP: Newly released photo of Jony Ives collaboration with Ferrari on its high-end EV SUV (Luce) including a groundbreaking electric charging mechanism design"
X Link 2026-02-10T00:22Z 722.9K followers, 154.5K engagements
"When Apple shut down its car project in [----] it had spent $10B+ over [--] years. Jony Ive created a concept that looked like a European minivan such as the Fiat Multipla [---] (Fiat image below). NYT has a recounting of Ive demo-ing the vehicle for Tim Cook: ➡ One day in the fall of [----] Mr. Ive and Mr. Cook met at the projects headquarters in Sunnyvale Calif. for a demonstration of how the car might work. The two men sank into the seats of a cabinlike interior. Outside a voice actor read from a script of what Siri would say as the men zoomed down the road in the imaginary car. Mr. Ive asked Siri"
X Link 2026-02-10T01:02Z 722.9K followers, 146.6K engagements
"Bytedances video mode Seedance [---] is pretty insane. Too many Lebrons on the court but smooth as butter otherwise"
X Link 2026-02-10T03:28Z 722.9K followers, 23.3K engagements
"@david_perell Thanks for sharing DP. I will say cinematically goes kinda hard"
X Link 2026-02-10T16:23Z 722.9K followers, 16.3K engagements
"My new favourite Winter Olympic sport: synchronized leaf blowers to dry the ice in the seconds between aerial ski jumps"
X Link 2026-02-10T21:09Z 722.9K followers, 147.3K engagements
"@pnegahdar so happy we swapped out Celsius"
X Link 2026-02-11T18:43Z 722.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt gonnna pass out when they see this Seedance [---] thread This was a [--] line prompt in seedance [--]. If the hollywood is cooked guys are right maybe the hollywood is cooked guys are cooked too idk. https://t.co/dNTyLUIwAV This was a [--] line prompt in seedance [--]. If the hollywood is cooked guys are right maybe the hollywood is cooked guys are cooked too idk. https://t.co/dNTyLUIwAV"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:37Z 722.9K followers, 326.7K engagements
"Tom Cruise truly Hollywoods last movie superstar. Saw pace of CGI/FX but understood people want proof of work: so the $30m per film actor strapped himself to the outside of cargo planes (I was scared sh*tless) and knew the behind-the-scenes footage would make him immortal. Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt gonnna pass out when they see this Seedance [---] thread https://t.co/55vvPGbOqB Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt gonnna pass out when they see this Seedance [---] thread https://t.co/55vvPGbOqB"
X Link 2026-02-11T21:44Z 722.9K followers, 40.5K engagements
"Wouldnt be shocked if these eventually guys sign their likeness away for remixing. The super-duper global stars of pre-2010s stardom (Cruise Pitt Leo Arnold) could be immortalized. Like old IP everyone knows just milk itI wrote more on it here: https://www.readtrung.com/p/star-wars-veo-3-and-hollywood-in https://www.readtrung.com/p/star-wars-veo-3-and-hollywood-in"
X Link 2026-02-12T02:10Z 722.9K followers, 13.2K engagements
"There are [---] Waymos in Atlanta. So thats [---] doors. At $6.25 per close a Dasher could clear $2500 a day. Law firm partner money. Waymo hiring DoorDash drivers to close car doors in Atlanta (Spotted on Reddit) Really putting the "Door" in DoorDash https://t.co/HjAutrPB4c Waymo hiring DoorDash drivers to close car doors in Atlanta (Spotted on Reddit) Really putting the "Door" in DoorDash https://t.co/HjAutrPB4c"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:59Z 722.9K followers, 49.6K engagements
"The number of .ai domains recently passed [--] million. Anguilla (island nation of 15k people) is the main financial beneficiary of the domain registries. It generated $70m in [----]. Equal to 25% of Anguilla governments operating budget (or one purchase). http://AI.com http://AI.com"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:04Z 722.9K followers, 26.7K engagements
"more here: https://sherwood.news/tech/now-more-one-million-ai-websites-contributing-an-estimated-70-million-anguilla-government-revenue/ https://sherwood.news/tech/now-more-one-million-ai-websites-contributing-an-estimated-70-million-anguilla-government-revenue/"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:06Z 722.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The John Wick franchise has interesting investing back story: directors were short $6m for first film and maxed out their credit cards (Keanu also ponied up all he could). Talent agency CAA tapped its network for financing and an anonymous person did the deal. It was Eva Longoria and she bumped into the directors many years afterwards they hadnt really spoken prior and she told them Wow that was the best money I've ever spent. Theres no confirmation on her return but she was first on the waterfall of payments and John Wick made $86m on a budget of $20m (the three sequels have done $1B at the"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:33Z 722.9K followers, 311.5K engagements
"Good interview including these nuggets: The studio didnt want Keannu to have a beard (because international audience might not recognize him; his beard won out) and didnt want to kill the dog (Keanu wanted it to happen to raise stakes of film; happened off screen) https://www.businessinsider.com/eva-longoria-producer-john-wick-2024-10 https://www.businessinsider.com/eva-longoria-producer-john-wick-2024-10"
X Link 2026-02-12T21:36Z 722.9K followers, 18.8K engagements
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